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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. DUPE by ClamIAm · · Score: 3, Informative

    A whole three days ago...

  2. Re:I think the editors need to go to a clinic by fatduck · · Score: 3, Informative

    I went to this "gaming addiction rehab clinic" and they told me that it doesn't matter if I'm addicted to World of Warcraft and sacrifice my relationships with family, friends, co-workers, fellow denizens of planet earth, as long as I think about Jesus all 24 hours of playtime per day.

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  3. Re:addictions by Random+Destruction · · Score: 3, Informative

    Annual causes of death in the US:
    Tobacco 435,000
    Alcohol 85,000
    Sexual Behaviors 20,000
    Marijuana 0

    Well it may be debatable, but I think its a pointless debate. I know more people do these other things than smoke pot, but let's multiply the pot number by five trillion to make up for the difference. Oh look, pot is still safer than sex.

    *Taken from drugwarfacts.com, original sources:
    Source: Mokdad, Ali H., PhD, James S. Marks, MD, MPH, Donna F. Stroup, PhD, MSc, Julie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH, "Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 10, 2004, Vol. 291, No. 10, pp. 1238, 1241.
    and
    Source: Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), available on the web at http://www.samhsa.gov/; also see Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A. Benson, Jr., "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, Institute of Medicine (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999), available on the web at http://www.nap.edu/html/marimed/; and US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition" (Docket #86-22), September 6, 1988, p. 57.

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