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The internet: Mental-health specialists disagree overwhether to classify compulsive online behaviour asaddictionand how to treat it 互联网：强迫性上网行为是否是网瘾，该如何治疗?心理健康专家对此说法不一 CRAIG SMALLWOOD, a disabled American warveteran, spent more than 20,000 hours over fiveyears playing an online role-playing game calledLineage II. When NCsoft, the South Korean firmbehind the game, accused him of breaking thegames rules and banned him, he was plunged intodepression, severe paranoia and hallucinations. He spent three weeks in hospital. He suedNCsoft for fraud and negligence, demanding over $9m in damages and claiming that thecompany acted negligently by failing to warn him of the danger that he would become addictedto the game. 克莱格.斯莫尔伍德是美国一位残疾退伍军人，五年中有20,000个小时都泡在网上，沉浸在一个叫做天堂II的线上角色扮演游戏中。当韩国游戏开发商NCSoft公司控诉克莱格违反游戏规则并将其注销后，克莱格极度抑郁，并陷入严重的偏执和幻想中。住院三周后，克莱格控告NCSoft公司欺诈和疏忽，声称该公司没有告诫其游戏网瘾的危害，要求获得9百万美元的赔偿金。 But does it make sense to talk of addiction to online activity? Mental-health specialists saythree online behaviours can become problematic for many people: video games, pornographyand messaging via e-mail and social networks. But there is far less agreement about whetherany of this should be called internet addictionor how to treat it. | 
