Chinese Addiction Clinics hit MSNBC

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Chinese Addiction Clinics hit MSNBC

My husband sent this to me this morning. Amazing!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17251571/

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Few countries have been as effective historically in fighting drug and alcohol addiction as China, which has been lauded for its successes, as well as criticized for harsh techniques.

I wonder if this is related :D

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Led by Tao Ran, a military researcher who built his career by treating heroin addicts, the clinic uses a tough-love approach that includes counseling, military discipline, drugs, hypnosis and mild electric shocks. Tao said the clinic is based on the idea that there are many similarities between his current patients and those he had in the past. In terms of withdrawal: "If you let someone go online and then he can't go online, you may see a physical reaction, just like someone coming off drugs." And in terms of resistance: "Today you go half an hour, and the next day you need 45 minutes. It's like starting with drinking one glass and then needing half a bottle to feel the same way."

Interesting techniques, definitely not en vogue, and I would really argue with the drug + electro shock approach, but if they could apply the hypnotic techniques developed in the vietnam war to "convert" prisoners to good use, good things could come out of it, also as little as I am in favour of military and armies in general, I consider military discipline to be a good thing. My life definitely would have been easier with more of it, my parents were brought up very strict so in the traditional way that parents of all ages and generations had, they took a "different" approach, which just ended up on the opposite end of the spectrum *laugh*

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Since he's been there, Sun said, he's decided to finish high school, attend college and then work at a private company, perhaps becoming an "authority figure" one day. With the help of a counselor, he's mapped out a life plan from now until he's 84.

Wow, thatA's some long-term planning, real communist style therapy :)

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Still, for all the high-tech treatments available to Sun at the clinic, the one that he says helped him most was talking. He looks forward to returning to school and getting on with his life.

ThatA's quite a good result ... Max

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[size=14]Wow! Pretty severe treatment ! Did anybody click on the survey? When I did it came back 62% of the 4998 people who answered it said that Yes Internet/On-line addiction was real. only 5% said they didn't know and balance said not real.[/size]

" ... don't question it just go" "... where the body goes the mind will follow"
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I need a one way ticket to China for my husband... LOL

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Yes , I clicked .... 3000 people, 60% said itA's real ... the severe treatment seems to work. I remember reading of several healers who use pretty severe treatment in Russia to heal alcoholism / drug issues, and they enjoy a pretty good success rate as far as I understand, though the treatment is definitely not for everyone.

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"The clinic has mainly helped me change the way I think." Let's see electrodes to the brain and feet, turn the little crank handle on the old-style telephone.. ZAAAAPPPP!!! Yeah, I'll think differently too after that. What also caught my attention was that the $1300 some parents are paying for treatment represents 10 times the salary, meaning then, that the average worker in China makes $32/week. Well heck, for a family of two that's almost $260/month... that's before state-owned housing and other costs are deducted from their already impoverished wage. Go Wal-Mart! /sarcasm off Ron

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