Mobile Phones: Texting Like Heroin for Teens

Your teenager may balk at the suggestion that texting can be compared to heroin addiction, but new research shows there's some truth to the idea.

Technology Addiction Specialists like, Dr. Hilarie Cash of the reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program in Washington, are seeing texting addiction more and more in patients, and say that obsessive texting can actually change how one’s brain functions.

Pediatric Neurologist Dr. Michael Seyffert told reporters, “Neuro-imaging studies have shown that those kids who are texting have the same area of the brain light up as an addict using heroin."

According to a study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 54% of teens text every day and half of teens send more than 50 text messages per day. Even more staggering is that 1 in 3 teens text 100x a day, or 3,000 text messages a month.

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