SMS addict detox

Jan 12 2004 - 12:44 PM ET | SMS

While American wireless carriers can't force customers to send text messages, UK citizens are sending too many--welcome to SMS addiction. The Priory, a well known detox clinic in the UK is helping patrons with text frenzy. The first case used to send 200 messages a day! Sufferers become moody, irritable and even physically ill when separated from their mobile phones.

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