Gaming fanatics show hallmarks of drug addiction

[mandy]

Excessive computer gaming has the hallmarks of addiction, suggests new experiments on "drug memory". The researchers argue it should be classified as such, enabling “addicts” to start seeking help.

“We have the patients and we have the parents and family members calling us for help,” says Sabine Grüsser of the Charité University Medicine Berlin, in Germany...

full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8327&feedId=online-news_rss20

[rose]

The researchers argue it should be classified as such, enabling “addicts” to start seeking help.

There are cancer patients in this country who don't get treatment because they're uninsured but these researchers waste time worrying about gamers playing too many computer games.  :

[jezebel]

excessive computer game players showed classic signs of craving when they were presented with freeze-frames from some of their favourite games – they desperately wanted to play, expected to feel better once they did