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Experts believe tech addiction is ‘digital heroin’ for kids

CALIFORNIA (JAN 19, 2017): Children are becoming tech-savvy in the face of rapid technological evolution, but doctors believe this is eroding children’s mind and could lead to disastrous consequences.

According to health experts, using IPads, Chromebooks and other tech devices at an early age are developing an unhealthy attachment and affecting memory of the kids.

“In a lot of cases, it makes them a lot less interested in things they used to enjoy – like sports and reading – and can make them stay up into the early hours of the morning, leading to sleep deprivation and irritability,” said Dr. Kardaras Care Limited of the United Kingdom.

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According to the care centre, studies have now shown that tech addiction has the same effect on children’s minds as cocaine.

Chinese researchers call screens ‘digital heroin’, whilst Dr Peter Whybrow, director of neuroscience at UCLA, calls them ‘electronic cocaine’.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.