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How China Is Curing Teens Of Internet Addiction

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"In China, teenagers' online dependency has been a significant issue for a decade. In 2007 the China Communist Youth League claimed that over 17 per cent of its 13 to 17-year-olds were addicted to the internet, the following year the country became the first to declare internet addiction to be a clinical disorder and one of the top health threats to its young people.

As a result, 400 institutions have opened across the country to wean some of the 24 million young people off compulsive internet use, or "electric heroin"."

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Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, and Jimmy Dore of The Young Turks discuss a new documentary which investigates China's militaristic boot camps to cure internet addiction. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

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