Most, if not all "Internet addicts", already fall under existing diagnostic labels.

Many so-called Internet addicts do not suffer from the same damage to health and relationships that are common to established addictions.

At first glance the spread looks officelike, but be warned: these places are drug dens for Internet addicts.

For serious Internet addicts, however, staying wired in while you're camping out can be a real concern.

There are family therapy programs for Internet addicts, and interventionists who specialize in confronting computer addicts.

She opened a clinic for Internet addicts at the hospital in 1996, when, she said, "everybody thought I was crazy."

You can also look up a specific name and track its status over time (an activity that, I warn you, is an Internet addict's sinkhole).

Internet addicts, unlike alcoholics or drug addicts, might not have a physical dependency but it is no trivial problem.

And it could be because the Internet addicts can't tear themselves away from their machines.

The bad news, for Internet addicts, is that they must send paper copies of their account applications to the firm; Federal regulators require it.