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Most people sent to these camps are gamers that spend hours and possibly days with their attention only on the virtual world. This has led to parents, who have watched their children become more and more addicted, spending up to $9000 to send them to military style camps.<\/p>\n
The addicts undergo therapy treatment designed by Tao Ran, a psychiatrist and colonel in the People\u2019s Liberation Army. He claims that there is a success rate of 75%. However, local students said their practices are excessively harsh. In August 2017, it was reported by the BBC an 18-year-old boy had sustained multiple injuries and was rushed to hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n
Students from the University of Manchester Gaming society provided comments on the amount they spend on video games, what impact it has and whether there are better ways to deal with gaming and internet addiction.<\/p>\n Nik, the treasurer of the Gaming society said that he plays video games everyday with an average of two hours each session but can go for six hours easily. He stated that a big motivator for online gaming is that his friends would also be online. In response to hearing about China\u2019s boot camps Nik said: \u201cIts not the best way to deal with it as just being in a camp like that isn\u2019t comfortable. A main reason they have addicts like that is because they have nothing else to do with their time and they should focus on improving their lives with better ambitions.\u201d<\/p>\n Ella Harding, social secretary of the society said she plays video games almost everyday for about three hours. She added: \u201cI agree it\u2019s an addiction but I think just talking to someone would help and you shouldn\u2019t be so harsh on those with addictions. You have people to deal with addictions so it does depend on how severe the addiction is. You can have a healthy amount of gaming \u2013 a lot of people make friends online.\u201d <\/p>\n Matt Knowles, a general member of the society said he plays video games around six hours a week due to the fact that he a lot of his time is spent studying. He said: \u201cIt can be hard sometimes when you see your other friends online. It can make you feel left out. Online encourages more of your friends to play.\u201d When asked about the camps Matt said: \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s the right way to go about it. You can\u2019t just forget the internet, it\u2019s everywhere as soon as they leave. The camp shouldn\u2019t be so severe.\u201d<\/p>\n The ADS (Addiction Dependency Solutions) have yet to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" China controls a vast amount of the content its people can access. This is done by legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People’s Republic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1264,"featured_media":2893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972,1],"tags":[2508,1064,2134,7,2509,2359,9],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-addiction","tag-china","tag-gaming","tag-manchester","tag-military-camp","tag-online","tag-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/sites\/default\/files\/img_2138.jpg\")