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Addiction: United States
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For a condition that some don't believe even exists, internet addiction goes by many names - net compulsions, internet addiction disorder, compulsive surfing, web dependency - none of which holds any official status. In fact, the contrary is true, as no credible medical association has been willing to embrace the condition.
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In the past, the only alternative for opiate addiction was to undergo conventional detoxification procedures, requiring patients to suffer through a debilitating and painful withdrawal. Not surprisingly, success rates for this approach are discouraging. Statistics show that one year following detoxification, the vast majority of patients have relapsed.
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An Armstrong County woman received a minimal sentence of a few hours in jail yesterday after her attorney argued that her embezzlement of $158,500 from a bank was the result of her addiction to the lottery. She spent the embezzled money on the state lottery to feed her gambling addiction.
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