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Treatment for Internet Addiction

Violence, electric shock therapy, medication, incarceration - all these sound more like treatments one would prescribe for a psychopathic serial sex offender rather than for a simple diagnosis of Internet addiction. But all these are supposedly true as Internet addiction treatments and therapies have become a billion-yuan industry in China. All this while it has been unregulated and as we might believe, such unorthodox methods probably claimed more lives than they were trying to save.

Here is a story of a mother and child "escaping" from a treatment centre. What do you think? And make sure you give it some thought - speaking without thinking would earn you a 50-volt dosage, unearthed.