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...example--is applied to this one, there could be as many as 15 million computer addicts. "The problem is far more common than people are willing to acknowledge in terms of loss of productivity or damage to the economy, as well as harm on a personal level," says Dr. Donald Black, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Black, having already studied pathological gamblers and compulsive shoppers, has begun a study of compulsive computer users, since observing that some of the people in his department were spending enormous amounts of time in front of their...
...that managers call in their companies' employee-assistance programs to help in such cases, but aid for the afflicted is scarce. In addition to traditional offline therapy, Young offers a virtual clinic with chat rooms and e-mail counseling on her website--an approach that University of Cincinnati psychiatrist Dr. Toby Goldsmith likens to "taking an alcoholic to an A.A. meeting in a bar." Goldsmith reports that some of the participants in her group's study are having success curbing their computer compulsion after taking mood stabilizers, sometimes combined with antidepressants...
Total abstinence is an impractical solution, experts agree--especially for people who must use modern technology in their work. "It's like an eating disorder: one must learn to eat normally in order to survive," suggests Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack, founder and coordinator of Computer Addiction Services at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. Orzack tries to get her patients to recognize the triggers for their destructive behavior and come up with alternative ways for them to feel better...
...doing fine. His mother was a coke addict; he was born at 24 weeks, weighing about 1 1/2 lbs., but once he was stabilized, he came off the ventilator and started feeding. "When I started back in 1972, a 2-lb. baby had a 95% chance of dying," says Dr. Ronald Goldberg, chief of the neonatal-intensive-care unit. "If he lived, the damage was pretty severe. Now a 2-lb. baby has a 95% chance of surviving, and the outcomes we're seeing are very good...
...Dr. Henry Rice operated at about 3 a.m. Monday, and what he saw wasn't good. "Maybe 95% of the bowel looked questionable," he says. "Sometimes you can remove the bad part, and he can fight off the infection. But this child's whole gut was involved." They stabilized him, able only to watch him over the next few hours, hoping for some improvement...