F: Welcome back to Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. I’m Linda Joyce. We’re talking this hour about how and why people might become addicted to things other than drugs, addicted to things like gambling, sex, even shopping. Of course, our high-tech society also offers new high-tech addictions like video games, on-line chat rooms. Jonathan Kandell is a counselor at the University of Maryland who puts together a support group for students who find themselves addicted to the Internet. Maybe you should listen carefully to this one if you are an Internet groupie. He joins me now from his office in College Park. Welcome to the Program.
M: Thank you very much.
F: Is this relatively new addiction?
M: Well, for some People, | mean, some people have been involved with the Internet for years and some of them may have been addicted for a while. With the widespread use of the Internet now, it's certainly growing on college campuses. And we are seeing more and more of it
F: How does it present itself? Does a student come to you and say, “Doc, you gotta help me. I'm addicted to the Internet”?
M: Well, I've seen people who have been, but they haven’t presented with that particular issue. They've presented with issues like relationship problems, or they are having problems maintaining their grades because they are spending so much time doing other things and when you find out what's really going on, they're spending a lot of time on the Net and they're not paying attention to their studies, they're not devoting the attention to the relationships. These problems are coming out in other ways.
F: Do other people turn their friends in, saying, “Doc, you gotta find out, this guy ...”
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