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Addiction & Depression: Johann Hari On Lost Connections

The Rich Roll Podcast

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What Are These Young Men Getting Out of Multiplayer World Player Games?

I went to the first of an internet rehab center in the United States. It's a place called Restart Washington. They disproportionately get young men who become obsessed with these multiplayer world player games like World of Warcraft or Fortnite. What they're getting is like a kind of parody of those things, right? The average child in Britain now spends less time outdoors than the average maximum security prisoner because by law a maximum security prisoner has to have 70 minutes a day and most of our kids don't get that.

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