As much as you all are saying it sounds like a scam, any drug rehab clinic will cost you about the same. 40 days for my brother cost almost $21k. An addiction is an addiction, requiring psychological counseling, sometimes psychiatric counseling, and activities. You require a nurse or some other qualified person (granted its usually some college student that has taken a course) to stand watch almost 24/7 to make sure that the person isn't doing any retarded stuff. now lets just say that the guy keeping watch costs you 8$ an hour (I am low balling this) (192$/day), the shrink costs you between 40-200$ an hour (depending on if he is greedy), food will cost you 20$/day, activities will cost you from 1-50$ a day (i mean chicken coups arent free :P, but i guess they could make macaroni art), so seriously 300$ a day does seem plausible. Granted substance abuse is a little different than video game abuse, but how different is it really? 17 hours/day of WoW cannot be good for the body, psyche, or personal development... how different is that to drug abuse?
Plus if testaments of this facility working were key to ppl buying into it, then 95% of men would walk around with giant dongs because of all the enzyte they've consumed.
Basically all I am saying is that its plausible, does this particular facility seem a little sketch maybe, but those costs are justified if it is the real deal.
WoW Player is Client of $14,000 Addiction Program
According to an Associated Press article published on the Austin American-Statesman Web site, a residential treatment center for Internet addiction opened its doors in July to help Web addicts, including World of Warcraft players, kick their habit. The Seattle-based reStart claims to be the first treatment center of its kind in the United States and comes with a hefty price tag; the 45-day program costs $14,000 plus other potential fees.
The article focuses on Ben Alexander, a 19-year-old whose 17-hour-a-day WoW habit caused him to drop out of the University of Iowa. According to NPR, Alexander is the first client at reStart, "which operates out of a massage therapist's large country home in the woods outside Seattle." Alexander works on projects like building a chicken coop and baking cookies while attending counseling sessions and going on outings.
The NPR article states Alexander's family is spending $300 a day to keep him away from the Internet. The reStart Web site has addressed the high cost of the program by saying "a program like this costs a great deal to run." What are your thoughts about the cost and the program as a whole?
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