Center for Online Addiction

To investigate the efficacy of using CBT with Internet addicts, this study investigated 114 clients who suffered from Internet addiction and received CBT at the Center for Online Addiction.

Tangled in the Web offers a critical look at cybersex fantasy and its potential for addiction and provides a comprehensive plan for recovery to help individuals hooked on adult chat rooms, online pornography, web cam sex, or a cyberaffair.

"I don't even help [my children] with their homework in the evening because I'm in the chat rooms, and I don't help put them to bed because I don't realize how late it is. I also don't help them get ready for school in the morning like I used to do because I'm checking my e-mail. And I just can't stop myself." - Raymond, an Internet addict.

Two days after Congress cracked down on online gambling, new data released from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania show that more than one million young people currently are using Internet gambling sites on a monthly basis.

A study by the Stanford School of Medicine found that more than one out of eight Americans exhibited at least one possible sign of problematic Internet use.

This paper examines the psychological perspective of virtual sex offenders and the role of cyberspace in the development of deviant and illegal behavior.

A homemaker 43 years old is addicted to using the Internet, demonstrating that a non-technologically oriented woman with a reportedly content home life and no prior addiction or psychiatric history abused the Internet which resulted in significant impairment to her family life.

Most college students do not recognize the problem. And as their numbers continue to soar, colleges have become perhaps the major breeding ground of Internet addiction.

Dependents ranked high in terms of self-reliance, emotional sensitivity and reactivity, vigilance, low self-disclosure, and non-conformist characteristics.

Research has identified pathological Internet use (PIU) which has been associated with significant social, psychological, and occupational impairment.