Web addiction affects brain like drugs: study

INTERNET addiction disrupts nerve wiring in the brains of teenagers and produce similar effects as those seen in the brains of people exposed to alcohol, cocaine and cannabis.

The “groundbreaking” discovery shows that being hooked on a behaviour can be just as physically damaging as addiction to drugs, scientists believe.

Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a recently recognised condition characterised by out-of-control internet use.