Yahoo! News reports that game addiction has failed to gain the necessary support to be classified as an actual illness by the American Medical Association. The measure had been put before the group, but it ultimately decided that the issue requires more study. Had it gone through, game addiction would have been put up beside alcoholism in textbooks around the land.
They said more study is needed before excessive use of video and online games -- a problem that affects about 10 percent of players -- could be considered a mental illness.
"There is nothing here to suggest that this is a complex physiological disease state akin to alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders, and it doesn't get to have the word addiction attached to it," said Dr. Stuart Gitlow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Game Addiction Not An Illness, Yet
Yahoo! News reports that game addiction has failed to gain the necessary support to be classified as an actual illness by the American Medical Association. The measure had been put before the group, but it ultimately decided that the issue requires more study. Had it gone through, game addiction would have been put up beside alcoholism in textbooks around the land.
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