This article discusses the controversy over whether computer and cyberspace addictions are unique or "true" addictions, the possible criteria for defining such addictions, and the "integration principle" for evaluating pathological internet use. Links at the bottom of the page will take you to other articles about addiction, including:

- an academic piece about healthy versus pathological internet use
- an analysis (based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs) of members who are devoted to the Palace chat community
- an e-mail from a Palace fanatic who stopped cold turkey
- Ivan Goldberg's criteria for defining pathological computer use and his announcement of a support group (which he intended as a joke)
- my summary, in a nutshell, of internet addiction
- and a few other tidbits