Country's First Internet Rehab Center Opens

[Demon_Skeith]

reSTART, the country's first detox center for internet addicts. reSTART promises to "assist participants with an internet and/or computer based behavioral addiction to break the cycle of dependency." The 45-day abstinence based recovery program "exposes participants to a variety of activities and everyday life skills which are often avoided or underdeveloped as a result of ongoing computer, video game play and internet abuse." In other words: reSTART will convince you to ride your bike once in a while.

On the negative side, the program will cost you $14,500, and your insurance company will literally laugh you out of the room if you ask them to pay for it, like they would a heroin detox. On the plus side, part of the center's treatment involves a treehouse.

more here

well this sounds like epic fail and a rip off.

 

[froggyboy604]

QUOTE (Demon_Skeith @ August 20, 2009 06:07 pm) reSTART, the country's first detox center for internet addicts. reSTART promises to "assist participants with an internet and/or computer based behavioral addiction to break the cycle of dependency." The 45-day abstinence based recovery program "exposes participants to a variety of activities and everyday life skills which are often avoided or underdeveloped as a result of ongoing computer, video game play and internet abuse." In other words: reSTART will convince you to ride your bike once in a while.

On the negative side, the program will cost you $14,500, and your insurance company will literally laugh you out of the room if you ask them to pay for it, like they would a heroin detox. On the plus side, part of the center's treatment involves a treehouse.

more here

well this sounds like epic fail and a rip off.
I agree this sounds like it is a epic fail, and a rip off. for $ 14,500 you can go to a town in a third-world country like the middle of Mexico that does not have very good access to the internet, or just hire an average person to control your internet access.

Plus, there is parental patrol or software in most versions of Windows that can limit people internet usage for a certain amount of time, and it is way cheaper.

 

[Yoshi]

QUOTE (froggyboy604 @ August 20, 2009 08:21 pm) QUOTE (Demon_Skeith @ August 20, 2009 06:07 pm) reSTART, the country's first detox center for internet addicts. reSTART promises to "assist participants with an internet and/or computer based behavioral addiction to break the cycle of dependency." The 45-day abstinence based recovery program "exposes participants to a variety of activities and everyday life skills which are often avoided or underdeveloped as a result of ongoing computer, video game play and internet abuse." In other words: reSTART will convince you to ride your bike once in a while.

On the negative side, the program will cost you $14,500, and your insurance company will literally laugh you out of the room if you ask them to pay for it, like they would a heroin detox. On the plus side, part of the center's treatment involves a treehouse.

more here

well this sounds like epic fail and a rip off.
I agree this sounds like it is a epic fail, and a rip off. for $ 14,500 you can go to a town in a third-world country like the middle of Mexico that does not have very good access to the internet, or just hire an average person to control your internet access.

Plus, there is parental patrol or software in most versions of Windows that can limit people internet usage for a certain amount of time, and it is way cheaper.
who uses windows? =D