February 27, 2007
Mobile-phone addiction in teenagers may cause severe psychological disorders
Such a harmless and common object in our society represents a real problem for four in ten young adults in Spain, for whom their mobile phone has turned into an addiction that can lead them to consequences as dangerous as those caused by alcohol or drugs. That is the conclusion reached by Francisca Lopez Torrecillas of the Universirty of Granada. News-Medical.net reports.
"Lopez Torrecillas highlights that this addiction is the result of social changes occurred in the last decade. The main difference between this kind of addiction and alcoholism or drug-addiction is that mobile phones do not apparently cause physical effects, but psychological ones. "Mobile-addicts can be seriously affected at the psychological level but, as they don't show any physical symptoms, their disorder goes unnoticed to others" says the UGR professor.
... Addiction to mobile phones should be included into a greater group - that of addiction to new technologies".
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