China Net addicts shocking experience
p2pnet news view P2P:- Good news for Net addicts in China.
They’ll no longer find treatment an electrifying experience.
“The use of shock therapy to treat cases of Internet addiction has been suspended by the Minstry of Health,” Danwei has The Beijing News saying, adding:
“In May, the Linyi Fourth People’s Hospital’s came under fire after an article published in the China Youth Daily revealed that the hospital had been using electric shock therapy to treat Internet addiction. Yesterday, the Ministry of Health ordered a stop to the practice, stating that the treatment’s safety has not been proven.
“Yang Shuyun, a hospital official, replied that the hospital had already stopped using the treatment in response to intense media pressure.”
Meanwhile, the “government-funded Daxing centre, run by an army colonel under the Beijing Military Hospital, is one of a handful of clinics treating patients with Internet addictions in China,” said a 2007 Reuters story, quoted in China Daily, from whence came the pic.
“Combining sympathy with discipline,” the military-style boot camp near Beijing, “is at the front-line of China’s battle against Internet addiction, a disorder afflicting millions of the nation’s youth,” said the sotry, adding:
“The Internet Addiction Treatment Centre (IATC) in Daxing county uses a blend of therapy and military drills to treat the children of China’s nouveau riche addicted to online games, Internet pornography, cybersex and chats.”
(Cheers to yingeli on Twitter)
Danwei – Shock therapy for Internet addiction halted, July 14, 2009
Reuters – Game over for China’s net addicts, Dedember 3, 2007
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July 14th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
This is really funny. They’re worried about a hospital using electric shocks to treat net “addiction”, but they look the other way while hundreds of followers of Falun Gong are tortured to death. Yeah, that makes sense…