Gaming Fanatics Show Hallmarks of Drug Addiction

Game_addict writes "There's a story over at New Scientist saying that a new study has found that game addiction has the same effects on people as drug addiction."

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Re:Those of you joking, it's no laughing matter.

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Get a life. I love it that anytime a person does something out of the "norm" it has to be fixed. If a person wants to spend their ENTIRE life in front of a computer playing games who are you to say they can't?! People like you have the same mentality as those idiots in the middle east!!! Anytime someone suggests breaking and entering, vandalism, and oppression of one's right to make a choice is a detriment to society. So by your statement you would rather live in society where YOUR stuff can be smashed because you use it too much or in a fashion that "normal" soceity doesn't accept. The thing that I find truely tragic about this is that your own family would even consider something like this. Family is supposed to support and allow one another to live the life that person wants to live, not live the life THEY believe they should be living. (ALthough a LOT of families these days do try to run one anothers lives)

Now that I got that off my chest. People who have addictive personalities often are aware of it (I'm one of them). AND they can/will quit when they are ready. If they don't, then they aren't ready and may never want to. A heroin addict gets help because they WANT TO. Remember the old saying, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink." That sums it up right there.

Cheers