The addiction is being likened to drug enslavement and new studies are needed to advise governments, parents and managers in the workplace on how best to protect people.
Paul Levy, 香港最快开奖现场直播资料 Senior Lecturer in the 香港最快开奖现场直播资料 Business School, said there were serious concerns that mobile phones alone lead to repetitive strain injuries, can harm the parent-child bond, and can make addicts prone to mood swings.
Recent studies, he said, highlighted an equally serious concern, that “internet addiction is resistant to treatment, entails significant risks, and has high relapse rates”.
Levy, author of the recently-published Digital Inferno , which aims to help people stay in control in the world of smartphones, tablets, laptops and social media, said: “From India to America, from China to England, concerns that our children are turning into couch potatoes grow.”