專家表示 給孩子智能手機堪比給毒品!
Giving your child a smartphone is like "giving them a gram of cocaine", a top addiction therapist has warned.
一位頂級的癮症治療師警告稱，給孩子一部智能手機好比“給他們一克可卡因”。Harley Street rehab clinic specialist Mandy Saligari said screen time is too often overlooked as a potential vehicle for addiction in young people.
哈利街戒癮所的專家曼迪·薩利嘉裏說，屏幕時間也是讓年輕人上癮的潛在媒介，但常被人們忽視。"I always say to people, when you're giving your kid a tablet or a phone, you're really giving them a bottle of wine or a gram of coke," she said.
她表示：“我經常對人們說，當你給孩子平板電腦或手機時，其實你是給了他們一瓶酒或者一克可卡因。”
"Why do we pay so much less attention to those things than we do to drugs and alcohol when they work on the same brain impulses?"
“平板電腦和手機能給大腦帶來與毒品和酒精同樣的刺激，但爲什麼與毒品和酒精相比，我們對它們的關注會少那麼多呢？”
Her comments follow news that children as young as 13 are being treated for addiction to digital technology - with a third of British children aged 12-15 admitting they do not have a good balance between screen time and other activities.
此前有新聞稱，接受數字技術上癮治療的孩子年齡低至13歲。英國12到15歲的孩子中，有1/3的人承認他們沒有在屏幕時間和其他活動之間保持良好平衡。"When people tend to look at addiction, their eyes tend to be on the substance or thing – but really it's a pattern of behavior that can manifest itself in a number of different ways," Ms Saligari said, naming food obsessions, self-harm and sexting as examples.
薩利嘉裏女士拿食物上癮、自我傷害和色情短信舉例說：“當人們關注上癮時，總是把焦點放在實質性的事物上面，但其實這是一種行爲模式，可以以不同的方式表現出來。”Concern has grown recently over the number of young people seen to be sending or receiving pornographic images, or accessing age inappropriate content online through their devices.
近來，人們越來越關注通過手機發送或接收色情圖片、或者在網絡上瀏覽與年齡不相符的內容的年輕人數量。Ofcom figures suggest more than four in ten parents of 12-15 year-olds find it hard to control their children's screen time. Even three and four year olds consume an average of six and half hours of internet time per week, according to the broadcasting regulators.
此外，英國通信管理局的數據顯示，12歲到15歲孩子的父母中，超過四成發現控制孩子的屏幕時間很困難。據該機構的數據，甚至連三四歲的幼兒每週上網時間平均都在6.5小時。
