When Jodie Sweetin was 13, Full House was canceled. The actress, who played Stephanie Tanner, grew up, got married and started doing meth. But her second husband, she says, was a gaming junkie.
Well, according to one expert, these games are designed to be addictive.
The Chinese government has taken swift steps to deal with teenagers that are addicted to online games and the internet. One step has been the creation of boot camps.
When officers arrived at a house in Kent, England, earlier this year to investigate appalling conditions reported by a neighbour, the game obsessed homeowner’s two dogs had been decomposing in the dining room for two months.
Quinn Pitcock, the once-promising defensive lineman who washed out of the NFL in 2008, citing games addiction, has opened up about his dark days in front of a screen. His game of choice was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Starcraft is big in Korea, but for some it can be too big, and they developer a serious addiction to the game. Ah well. Nothing some hard drugs can’t cure!
Quinn Pitcock was an all-America defensive lineman at Ohio State and a third-round draft pick by the Indianapolis Colts. But he quit the NFL in 2008, at age 24. The reason? Video game addiction.
What small furry rodent do scientists turn to when they need to study the effects of alcohol abuse on humans? That would be the prairie vole: nature’s frat boy.
Internet person haiksterbnh spent nearly five years of his life playing World of Warcraft, clocking over 24,000 hours. He created a Level 73 Shaman and a 80 Priest. But after “having no friends…at all”, he made an important decision.
Have you just been gaming for the past two hours? You just did the equivalent of a line of cocaine, says UK counsellor and therapist Steve Pope in the Lancashire Evening Post.