2/3 believe internet can be physically addictive
Today’s cnn.com poll showed 64% of respondents believe “it is possible to become physically addicted to the Internet.” However I’m not so sure it isn’t solely psychological addiction (besides porn sites!). I guess the question was properly posed. Here’s wikipedia’s trying to explain things:
“The obsolete term physical addiction is deprecated, because of its connotations. In modern pain management with opioids physical dependence is nearly universal but addiction is rare.
The medical community now makes a careful theoretical distinction between physical dependence (characterized by symptoms of withdrawal) and psychological dependence (or simply addiction). Addiction is now narrowly defined as “uncontrolled, compulsive use”; if there is no harm being suffered by, or damage done to, the patient or another party, then clinically it may be considered compulsive, but to the definition of some it is not categorized as “addiction”. In practice, the two kinds of addiction are not always easy to distinguish. Addictions often have both physical and psychological components.”