When kids use smartphone, it's the same as using a gram of cocaine.

If you give your children a smartphone it's “s give them a gram of cocaine”. She has explained it to The Independent Mandy Sailgar, a psychologist for permanent addiction and family relationships.

Dr. Saligar is chief of the Hardy Street Charter rehabilitation Clinic, and two-thirds of her patients are boys aged 16 to 20, but many are even younger. Over the past decade, the number of teenagers assisted by this facility has increased exponentially.

I always say that if you give a little kid a smartphone or a pill it's like giving him a wine bottle or a gram of cocaine”, the therapist says, warning parents about the dangers of social networks.

Most of her patients are girls between the ages of 13 and 15, involved in the so-called “exting”: sending sexually explosive images through their mobile phone.

Many girls in particular are convinced that sending a naked photo through their smartphone is normal,” says psychologist.

A few days earlier, news of the existence of a photocopification center for smartphones and electronic equipment for American teenagers had opened many discussions. The facility is located near Seattle and offers help to young people who spend most of the day before video games or online.

And why do we pay less attention to these things than to drugs or alcohol?

To convince teenagers to abandon their smart phone is very complicated, to them it's a third hand, but I don't think it's impossible, schools that ask young people to spend time away from their phone are excellent. You can learn your children's self-discipline, “ends the doctor.