Video Game Addiction

If Gambling, Games, and Sex Are Addictive, What Is Addiction?

Stanton Peele | Posted 04.19.2012

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DSM 5's announcement that the psychiatric diagnostic manual will, for the first time, call something addictive that doesn't involve substance abuse -- gambling -- has opened the floodgates.

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Why Are You So Angry, Birds?

Ali MacLean | Posted 04.07.2012

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Look, Fowl Freaks, whatever your beef is with the pigs, setting yourself on fire and launching yourself as a homemade bomb through a crudely made sling shot is not the answer. I have to ask you to leave my boyfriend out of it.

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Addiction? Video Games Crowded Out Man's Real Life

AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 10.28.2011

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SARASOTA, Fla. — At the height of what he calls his addiction, Ryan Van Cleave would stand in the grocery store checkout line with his milk and ...

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Addiction? Video Games Crowded Out Man's Real Life

AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 10.28.2011

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SARASOTA, Fla. — At the height of what he calls his addiction, Ryan Van Cleave would stand in the grocery store checkout line with his milk and ...

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Video Games Crowded Out Man's Real Life

AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 10.27.2011

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SARASOTA, Fla. — At the height of what he calls his addiction, Ryan Van Cleave would stand in the grocery store checkout line with his milk and ...

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Worldwide, Students Suffer From Internet 'Addiction'

Susan Moeller | Posted 06.06.2011

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For young adults, media are no longer external actors that deliver news and information; they are the circuitry of this generation's increasingly bionic make-up.

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The Latest Addiction

Matthew Edlund, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why do some internet gamers, who often play in total obscurity, keep playing until they die?

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Nearly 1 In 10 Kids Risk Pathological Addiction To Video Games

Posted 05.25.2011

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Roughly 1 in 10 children who play video games are at risk of becoming pathologically addicted to them, found a new study published in the journal Pedi...

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Judge: Video Game Addiction Lawsuit Can Proceed

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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HONOLULU — A federal judge has ruled that a man who says he's psychologically dependent and addicted to an online video game can proceed with so...

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South Korea Internet Addicts Let Child Starve While They Raised Virtual Child

AP | SANGWON YOON | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEOUL, South Korea — Day and night, Lee Mi-hwa's son stays on his computer, slaying dragons in his online fantasy world while his dinner and hom...

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South Korea Imposes Midnight Gaming Ban To Combat Addiction

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Other people sacrifice their sons to the nation, but I gave my son away to online games," one South Korean mother told Donga, a South Korean news out...

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Are We (Virtually) There Yet?

Stephen Balkam | Posted 05.25.2011

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Recent research found that kids consume 7.5 hours of media per day. Add in multi-tasking (texting while watching TV while listening to music, for instance) and the figure reaches an amazing 11 hours.

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Caffeine Addiction -- As Real As Nicotine Addiction?

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

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"How ridiculous," we think. "Coffee, addictive" -- what will they think of next." Let's dial back to 1964 -- the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health. You know, the one that banned smoking.

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"HALO 3 KILLER" SENTENCED To 23 Years

The Examiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Halo 3 Killer Sentenced: If you haven't heard, it's the biggest story of video-game related violence in history - in October of 2007, Daniel Petric...

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Study: Almost 1 In 10 Young Video Game Users 'Addicted'

Yahoo! News | Karen PallaritoHealthDay Reporter | Posted 11.17.2011

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A sizable number of young video game players -- fully 8.5 percent -- exhibit signs of addiction to gaming, a new study has found. These kids aren't...

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