Video Game Addiction
Video Gaming Addiction as a mental illness, or a form of addiction as such that it could be officially labeled so. They concluded that more time was needed for study and research of the topic before making that kind of decision about a problem that they claim effects.
The annual meeting of the AMA (American Medical Association) was the place of the debate which involved whether or not to classify Video Gaming Addiction as a mental illness, or a form of addiction as such that it could be officially labeled so. They concluded that more time was needed for study and research of the topic before making that kind of decision about a problem that they claim effects 10% of gamers.
"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," said Dr. Stuart Gitlow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
The fact they even discussed it is very telling!
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