Cryptocurrency addiction centre

People hooked on trading cryptocurrencies are to be offered treatment to deal with their addiction in the first centre of its kind in Scotland.

Castle Craig Hospital in Peeblesshire has created a course of residential treatment for “crypto addicts” to deal with the underlying issues and learn to live without it. Experts say the trading of digital currencies such as Bitcoin can become a behavioural addiction, similar to online gambling with some users obsessively following minute-byminute fluctuations in prices.