Addicting Internet Games

Addicting Internet Games

Addicting Internet Games

In 2009, ReStart opened its doors to Internet and video game addiction sufferers who could not handle it alone. The center is the first detox facility in the United States that deals with the growing online addiction problem, co-founders Dr. Hilarie Cash and psychotherapist Cosette Dawna Rae say.

Based in Fall City, Wash., a few miles away from Microsoft headquarters, the 5-acre, 6-bed retreat offers a family-style, therapeutic and Internet-free environment to help ween addicts off of cyberspace over a 45-day period.