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Addictive power of video games
Psychiatrists are divided over whether playing video games obsessively should be classed as an addiction. Now a key advisory council to the French government has weighed in to the debate - saying that treatment of compulsive video-gaming should be a higher priority for the state. Elizabeth Woolley - whose son died after obsessively playing video games and who went on to found Online Gamers Anonymous in the United States - believes video gaming should be treated as an addiction.
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