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They spent six hours a day on them, says psychiatrist · Spanish cases may be tip of iceberg, expert warns

Graham Keeley in Barcelona Jo Adetunji

The Guardian,

Friday June 13 2008

Two Spanish children are being treated for addiction to mobile phones, in what is thought to be first case of its kind in the country. The children, 12 and 13, were admitted to a mental health clinic by their parents because they could not carry out normal activities without their phones.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/13/spain.mobilephones

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Spain treats child phone addicts

Click on the link to the BBC story and have your say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7452463.stm

Also see news article in today's Telegraph, see below.
http://tinyurl.com/3ks6sv

And the New York Times article, How Much Radiation Does Your Phone Emit, contains a list of the highest and lowest radiation level mobile phones.


Eileen O'Connor
Radiation Research Trustee
http://www.radiationresearch.org


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Japan fights children's cell phone addiction
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24839642/


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