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Addiction and Drug Education Blogs and Podcasts, looking at drug use trends and treatment, and how addiction is tied to the brain as well as the body addiction, drugs, education, recovery, substance abuse education, prevention, chemical dependency, AOD CNS Productions CNS Productions service@cnsproductions.com no no http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/470/ http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/470/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:57:56 +0000 CNS http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/?p=470 http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/470/feed/ 0 00:01:01 In this weeks Addiction Radio podcast, we take a look at Internet addiction. Transcript of podcast (click to listen): Welcome to the CNS pod cast featuring Dr ... In this weeks Addiction Radio podcast, we take a look at Internet addiction. Transcript of podcast (click to listen): Welcome to the CNS pod cast featuring Dr Darryl Inaba, research director for CNS Productions CNS: Hi and welcome again to this CNS Productions pod cast. I’m Howard LaMere with Darryl Inaba and Darryl what’s in the news this week? Darryl: There seems to be an interesting story in the New York Times about internet addiction, about how it’s permeated and intruded onto everyday family life and every family member, where you can’t even start off the day without logging onto the internet and checking your emails or checking twitter or doing something in cyberspace. And it’s something that’s been just exponentially growing with the invention of the internet and with the day to day with computers certainly in this country we’ve seen it going to the point that the new manual of diagnosing mental illnesses, mental health conditions, called the DSM4 or diagnostic standard manual fourth edition revised is now ready to be, go on to the next edition the DSM5 and there’s a lot of jockeying in movement that they would include internet addiction and internet gaming addiction and all of that that deals with cyberspace as a diagnostic and diagnosable mental illness as part of the impulse control disorders probably or an obsessive personality disorder or something along that vein, my vote would be that probably be first in the impulse control disorder and then move on probably to it’s own standalone mental health disorder. The obsession is, pretty much like a, well maybe it’s even greater than drugs, what we hear of today and certainly reporting in New York Times is that people get up in the morning, families get up in the morning and before they shower, before they take a coffee, before they look at their morning paper and actually before their feet even gets off the bed, they’re reaching for their cell phones and they’re reaching for their lap tops and they’re going online and, and they’re checking all that stuff and they’re being totally obsessed with the internet. I know that in China,  that this has been recognized as a much more severe problem much earlier than it was here in the United States. CNS: Right, resulting in that thirteen year old’s death last week. Darryl: And, in some sort of boot camp, they also have boot camps for kids there trying to woo them off of their obsession to be on the internet. So this qualifies, I think, as a major addiction since so much of life well maybe not life complications but consequences. You’re not involved in yourself with your family as much, you’re going online, you’re only interaction with other people seems to be on the internet, the majority of your time is spent on the internet and internet gaming that it, it is creating I think a major, a compulsive problem with a lot of our youth. Now in the addition to that there’s like sort of family fighting going on, there’s reports say even in the New York Times reports that in families who can’t afford to have everybody on their own system. You’ve got a family of four, you’ve got one computer, you’ve got one connection, and there’s actually fights within the family. CNS: Yeah, who gets to use it first? Darryl: Yeah and the zoning out that people get, when they get on the internet, sort of like a descriptions of a compulsive and pathological gamblers and other drug addictions that part of the high is not so much the actual engagement in the activity and, and the excitement you’re getting out of the activity or the interaction you’re getting from that activity, but it’s ability to zone out to separate you from everything else around you and just lose yourself in that activity with no thoughts what so ever and free yourself of any kind of stress and any kind of worries in that way. CNS: It’s an escape, not unlike other escapes that we have used through time. Darryl: A Compulsive Behaviors, Dr. Darryl Inaba, In the News, Podcasts CNS Productions no no