Internet and Drugs. Linked Addictions?
So now if you're a college student and a heavy user of the Internet, you could be a junkie, too? That's what a new study is saying, newswise,com reports. It makes sense, I guess. Addiction is addiction. “The findings provide significant new insights into the association between Internet use and addictive behavior,” the Web site quotes Dr. Sriram Chellappan, an assistant professor of computer science at Missouri S&T and the lead researcher in the study. In the study, t he subjects’ Internet usage was divided into several categories, including gaming, chatting, file downloading, email, browsing and social networking (Facebook and Twitter). Total scores "exhibited the highest correlations with gaming, chatting and browsing, and the lowest with email and social networking," newswise relates. The researchers also observed that specific symptoms measured by the scale correlated with specific categories of Internet usage. "They found that introversion was...