video game addiction

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
News

New UK Gaming Addiction Centre Uses 12-Step Program

12:20PM AJ Glasser | The Telegraph reports that Britain has gone and opened its first computer rehab clinic Broadway Lodge in Weston-super-Mare, England. More »
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Features

I Kept Playing – Reader Response

11:00AM Mike Fahey | Yesterday I posted an article titled I Kept Playing – The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction.” The response from our readers has been so overwhelming that I felt I should take the time to address it. More »
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Boston Globe Discovers Video Game Addiction

12:01AM Brian Crecente | The Boston Globe has an intriguing question and answer session up with Dr. Jerald Block, who specialises in online video game addiction. Block, a psychiatrist in Portland, Ore., recently wrote an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry arguing that Internet Addiction should become a new diagnostic term. It’s interesting to read his thoughts and them to compare it to the things being said by the psychiatrists I interviewed back in 1999 when I wrote a story about how researchers think that Internet and Sex addiction are very similar. Back then a David Greenfield, director for the Centre of Internet Studies, told me that the Internet was addictive and that that particular form of addiction was nearing a national epidemic… yet somehow we survived. More »
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