On the other side of the glass panel, Dr Lee watches the results come in: "The results from internet addicts were very similar to patients with ADHD, and also other forms of addiction - in the way the brain functionality had been depressed".
The reason many people have trouble stopping drinking is because when they try, they substitute other forms of addiction like caffeine or nicotine and so their bodies never get over the addictive cycle of cravings, satiety and withdrawal.
Daily Strength (dailystrength.org) offers online support groups for 16 different forms of addiction.
Technology induces ever more subtle forms of addiction, to products, but also to agitation itself.
They noted that "tobacco dependence kills more people than many classic medical diseases" and far more than any other forms of addiction.
If we say yes to all these things, there will be no room for illicit drugs, for alcohol abuse, for other forms of addiction".
He criticised the growth of black market labour and no-contract work, which he said ensured that people could not earn living wages and led to forms of "addiction".
While many leading Western medical authorities remain skeptical about acupuncture, scores of patients have extolled its apparent effectiveness in treating low back pain, headaches, sciatica, dysentery, nausea and vomiting and certain forms of addiction.
Their question to themselves when presented with a new person is: "Who does this person want me to be?" Chameleons are also prone to the commonest forms of addiction, from substances to gambling and sex.
In the salad days of infatuation the high levels of dopamine (the pleasure-seeking hormone) combined with the low levels of serotonin (that helps us to feel calm and relaxed) combine to create a crafty reward system that is nearly indistinguishable from all other forms of addiction.
