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Morgan Spurlock, the documentarian who earned an Oscar nomination for Super Size Me, has passed away.

After i correct them, i give them specific exercises for them. >> the problem with extreme gamers, they dont know when enough is enough. >> chooina was the first in the world to declare internet addiction by 2008. these teenagers cannot pull themselves away from the computer. not to eat or sleep or even go to school. the documentary web junkie followed them as their parents had them going to treatment center of breaking them into their bad habits. >> we decided to go through director thao ron ou...

Disorder in 2008. these teenagers in beijing cant pull themselves away from the computer. not to eat, not to sleep, not even to go to school. the documentary web junkie follows them as parents have them admitted to internet addiction treatment center in an attempt to break them of their bad habits. >> we decided to see director ourselves, a psychologist who established this facility to teach children how to use the internet responsibly. he said hes rescued through a mixture of medicine and psych...

In china, these vivid images caught on camera of teens stuck to their computer screens going hours without food and sleep so they dont miss a moment playing video games. >> reporter: in the new documentary "web junkie," airing on pbs, these young addicts struggle through inpatient rehab to treat an internet addiction now considered in china to be a clinical disorder. >> these kids are disconnected from reality. they stop functioning in their own lives. this is for the parents maybe the last chan...

Identified as a growing problem around the world. some experts even labelling it a screen addiction. in china, these vivid images caught on camera of teens stuck to their computer screens going hours without food and sleep so they dont miss a moment playing video games. >> reporter: in the new documentary "web junkie," airing on pbs, these young addicts struggle through inpatient rehab to treat an internet addiction now considered in china to be a clinical disorder. >> these kids are disconnecte...