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Welcome to Internet Rehab
BY CAROLYN GREGOIRE
HEY’VE COME from all
over the country to be
cured of one of society’s
newest, and potentially
most debilitating, ailments. After
trying and failing to control their
behavior, they’ve checked themselves into a cluster of gray-andwhite buildings located off of an
interstate parkway in rural Pennsylvania, 80 miles south of Buffalo,
NY, in order to reclaim their lives.
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Welcome to Internet rehab.
It’s the first inpatient Internet
addiction treatment center in
the country, located in the Behavioral Health Services unit at
Bradford Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania.
Many of us have joked at one
time or another about being addicted to our email, iPhone or
Twitter account, but as technology has penetrated nearly every
domain of our daily lives, these
addictions are becoming more real
— and they’re being recognized by