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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. I think the editors need to go to a clinic by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They need to get treated for... ummmm. What's it called now... Some condition where you can't remember things. It's like you can't remember what you just did. Wait remember what? What was I talking about? Oh that's right the editors need to go to a clinic for.... something... can't remember the name....

    Seriously. You'd think they'd try their own search or something :P

  2. That's nothing! by Mr0bvious · · Score: 0, Redundant

    OSTG have just sponsored a detox clinic for dupe story addicts...

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    Never happened. True story.
  3. The real problem ... by Spliffster · · Score: 0, Redundant
    as a gamer i have to say (well, i am not addicted but which addicted would confess) ...
    Like other addicts, Bakker said, gamers are often trying to escape personal problems. When they play, their brains produce endorphins, giving them a high similar to that experienced by gamblers or drug addicts.
    this is the real problem, don't blame the games, don't blame the drugs. It's a social problem. Look where you came from, look how you got there.

    /me is rolling one.