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14 January 2017

Electroshock Therapy for Internet Addicts? China Vows to End It

HONG KONG — At the Addiction Treatment Center in eastern China, more than 6,000 internet addicts — most of them teenagers — not only had their web access taken away, they were also treated with electroshock therapy.
The center, in Shandong Province, made headlines in September after one of its patients killed her mother in retribution for abuse she had purportedly suffered at the camp during a forced detox regimen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/world/asia/china-internet-addiction-electroshock-therapy.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170113&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y&_r=1