Results for addiction

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  • Addiction experts say video games not an addiction
    Wednesday 27 June 2007 – 11:56
    Doctors backed away on Sunday from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the issue more
  • Subliminal messages attempt to cure video game addiction
    Wednesday 14 March 2007 – 05:34
    Xtive, a Korean start-up company, has proposed a system of sending subliminal audio messages to gamers telling them that their time is up and they should stop gaming
  • Physicians to vote on Internet and video game addiction
    Friday 22 June 2007 – 12:15
    Doctors belonging to the American Medical Association will vote on whether Internet and video game addiction is a real disease
  • Treatment for Internet addiction suggested
    Monday 20 August 2007 – 10:25 in Business
    Tel Aviv (Israel) – Is your computer mouse your first thought when you get up in the morning? Are you obsessed with email, MySpace or YouTube? A psychiatrist said that such behavior should be put on the same level with other extreme addictive disorders a

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  • Game Addiction: Myth or Reality?*
    Tuesday 15 May 2007 – 05:07
    Game Addiction: Myth or Reality? In 2001, Elizabeth Woolley's son, a heavy EverQuest player, committed suicide. Woolley believes her son's addiction to the popular MMORPG is to blame, and as a result, she started a 12-step support group called On-Line Gamers Anonymous. TwitchGuru talks with Woolley about the issue of game addiction.
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