Video Games: Addiction or Just a Colossal Waste of Time?
Last week, I reported that a doctor's group proposed designating video game addiction as a psychiatric disorder akin to alcoholism or compulsive gambling.
Over the weekend, they changed their minds (or, more likely, had their minds changed for them) saying more study was needed. As put by Dr. Stuart Gitlow, the head of the American Society of Addiction Medicine
There is nothing here to suggest that this is a complex physiological disease state akin to alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders, and it doesn't get to have the word addiction attached to it.
Which is such a bummer, because if video games "got" to have the word addiction attached to them, parents would finally have a real reason to pull the plug. Because they lead straight to heroin.
Addiction experts say video games not an addiction [Reuters]
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