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Detox Clinic Opening for Video Game Addicts

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the come-clean dept.

Blue6 writes "An addiction center is opening Europe's first detox clinic for game addicts, offering in-house treatment for people who can't leave their joysticks alone. Video games may look innocent, but they can be as addictive as gambling or drugs, and just as hard to kick, says Keith Bakker, director of Amsterdam-based Smith & Jones Addiction Consultants." I'm pretty sure the amount of time I've spent in the world of Azeroth in the past year counts as addiction. Someone tell my parents I still love them, while I mine this ore.

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  1. Newspeak by lga · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Addiction Consultants" - is that what we are calling drug dealers now?

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  2. Joysticks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't leave mine alone either.

    1. Re:Joysticks by AstrumPreliator · · Score: 4, Funny

      They have a different clinic for that joystick problem.

    2. Re:Joysticks by sa1lnr · · Score: 5, Funny

      And we are all here posting on it. ;)

  3. Quaking in my boots by mo'o+ahi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi, my name is Mo and I'm a Quake addict...

    1. Re:Quaking in my boots by scsirob · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hi Mo..

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  4. funny by 7o9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    how about just linking to all funny comments from 3 days ago? i'm not addicted to dupes

  5. Best way to cure the game addiction. by forgotten_my_nick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stick them in a room with Daikatana.