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# Worse than Opium
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2650/
- Published: 2005-10-11T11:56:17.000Z
- Updated: 2005-10-11T11:56:17.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Technology, #wpChunk

The Internet is booming in China (even with all the censorship, a result that violates every premise of extreme versions of the open society). Yet with the boom has come a mental problem: Internet addiction.

> Wang Yiming, 21, is a self-confessed internet addict, one of a growing number in China. He used to spend hours online each day, often going without food or sleep. His face is drawn and sallow.

> He said addiction changed his whole life:

> "A month or two after I started surfing the internet, I failed some of my school tests, but I was too afraid to tell my parents. When my father found out, he was very angry.

> "But I couldn't control my addiction. Friends were also telling me that I was on the net too long, but I thought: 'It's my life, I can do what I want.' I became a real loner, was withdrawn, and wouldn't listen to anyone."

> A young Chinese internet addict receives an electroencephalogram check at the Beijing Military Region Central Hospital July 6, 2005 in Beijing, China.  
> The clinic provides medical treatment and therapy

> For help, Wang Yiming went to China's first internet clinic, a low-rise, anonymous building in central Beijing.

[Link](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4327258.stm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

Can the howls for government-funded Internet recovery centers in the U.S. be far behind?