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Internet addiction: the first map of the centers

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Internet addiction: the first map of the centers
A geo-localized and interactive mapping to quickly identify the services that deal with internet addiction. It is an online guide created by the National Center for Addiction and Doping of the ISS as part of the CCM Wireless network project: many possible connections.

THE MAP – The centers for treating web addiction

The guide, updated in December 2021, is a reasoned list of the social and health structures that deal with problems related to the use of the Internet and facilitates access to local resources by facilitating and reducing the meeting times between demand for user and service response. And it gives operators the opportunity to register, thus entering the census.

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“To offer users struggling with problematic use from the internet help to immediately identify the most suitable service – he says. Roberta Pacificidirector of the National Center for Addiction and Doping of the ISS – can facilitate easier access to the management and treatment of this addiction and thus prevent the chronicization of the discomfort “.

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And give

According to the census data, 99 local resources deal with related internet disturbances, of which 83 pertaining to the National Health Service and 16 to the private social sector. But the offer is not homogeneous on the national territory: Lombardy for the North, the Marche for the Center and Sardinia for the South and the Islands are the regions with the greatest presence of territorial resources for Internet addictions. No updates have arrived from the regions of Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Molise.

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Therapy

The treatment paths offered are mainly characterized by an integrated multimodal approach that sees in the intervention of psychological support to the patient (93%) the most proposed intervention, followed by individual psychotherapy (91%) and the psychological support intervention for family members (82%), individual psychoeducational intervention (73%) and family psychotherapy (66%), minor percentages concern the other interventions proposed in the survey form.

347 professionals

The territorial resources make use of various professional figures who offer integrated treatments. The professionals who make up the team are 347 and are mainly psychotherapists (29%), social workers and professional educators (both 16%), medical specialists in psychiatry or neuropsychiatry (15%) and to follow clinical psychologists, professional nurses, medical specialists in child neuropsychiatry, interns, fellows and volunteers.

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Most of the territorial resources take care of users for substance addictions (73%) and / or for other behavioral addictions (91%). It is above all alcohol (59%) and gambling disorder (68%) that are treated in the services and facilities that have joined the census.

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