Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

‘Net addiction: Real problem or blown out of proportion?

Opinion
Dec 13, 20061 min

Earlier this fall there was a big study on Internet addiction, but shrinks are saying we may have jumped the gun. “I would not at this point rule it out, but I would say it’s just way too early to conclude there is such a thing as Internet addiction. The media has gotten way ahead of the science here,” said Stanford psychiatry Professor Elias Aboujaoude.