2 Kids In Spain Treated For "Cell Phone Addiction"-Parents Should Be Charged With Child Endangerment

Yep...Teens addicted to cell phones. As if cough syrup, gossiping and MySpace weren't bad enough; now 2 teens in Spain are being treated for "addiction to their cell phones".

According to Dr Maite Utges, director of the Child and Youth Mental Health Centre in Lleida, Spain "it may take a year to wean them off of the drug".

We blame the parents on this. The kids were 12 and 13 years old and spent over 6 hours a day on their cell phones. Plus, just because the word "CrackBerry" has made it into Websters Dictionary, it's still not an actual drug, and with no actual drug, there can be no actual addiction.

Are todays parents THIS out of touch with their kids that they had their phones for 18 MONTHS and they didn't recognize it? It's no wonder that 17 teenage girls get knocked up without the parent's batting an eye.

It's AMAZING that isn't actually a story from the United States, because, if it were, the parents of the teen girl in the above picture would be fighting their insurance company after the awesome rear-end collision that is about to happen, saying it's because "the power of the drug called the cellphone was too over-whelming to her" causing the wreck, rather than "Little Shelly was 2 biz-e reading a txt msg from her BFF Jennifer cuz OMG Mark thinks she's hawt".

Update: BTW, shout-out to Engadget for bringing this story to our attention and Telegraph.co.uk for originally posting it.