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‘Tech addicts’ seek solace in 12 steps and rehab

Game Over –

December 26, 2018 – For them, tech gets in the way of daily functioning and self-care.  We’re talking flunk-your-classes, can’t-find-a-job, live-in-a-dark-hole kinds of problems, with depression, anxiety and sometimes suicidal thoughts part of the mix.  “The drugs of old are repackaged.  We have a new foe”, Cosette Rae says … A former developer in the tech world, she heads a Seattle area rehab center called reSTART Life, one of the few residential programs in the nation specializing in tech addiction.

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