Video Game Detox Center Opens

[profdlp]

Finally, progress in the fight against...having fun?

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — An addiction center is opening Europe's first detox clinic for video 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.

Bakker already has treated 20 video game addicts, aged 13 to 30, since January. Some show withdrawal symptoms, such as shaking and sweating, when they look at a computer console.
Stop me before I camp at a spawn point again...

Source: Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,198859,00.html)

[Nosferatu]

Source: Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,198859,00.html)

Who would have thunk? ;D

[RWB]

Hrm..

[profdlp]

...via the Associated Press... :rolleyes:

Would you gentlemen care to comment on the article itself? ;)

[TheSmJ]

Lets face it: everything which is considered "fun" by some is "evil" to somebody else.

[Nosferatu]

A detox center for people suffering from a "video game addiction"? It's ludicrous. We aren't talking about nicotine, alcohol, or hard drugs here. It's a video game! What is the world coming to...? This is something that should be featured on The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/content/index).

[airbornflght]

I love the onion, its so damn funny,one of the girls in my yearbook class brought a big book in that was the onion, i read it for 2 weeks straight.