VSOH - AMA to declare online gaming an addiction! : Vanguard News

The american medical association has just passed an agreement between themselves declaring their interest in making massively-multiplayer-online-gaming an addiction. There is talk that there will be possibilities of methods of working with the addiction as if it were like gambling or substance abuse.

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"This report responds to Resolution 421, adopted at the 2006 Annual Meeting, which (1) asks our AMA’s Council on Science and Public Health to work in conjunction with all appropriate specialty societies to prepare a report reviewing and summarizing the research data on the emotional and behavioral effects, including addiction potential, of video games; and (2) directs our AMA to develop recommendations for physicians, parents, and legislators based on the findings of this report."

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload ... h12a07.doc