Addiction Archive

  • Video game addiction: The same as getting high on cocaine?

    Video game addiction: The same as getting high on cocaine?

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    A UK therapist claims that two hours of playing video games gives the same high as doing a line of cocaine. Of course that raises the question of, well, what would you rather your kid do, bump lines off a dirty mirror or play Mario Kart before going to bed? What, too flip?

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  • PANIC! Study finds that students are addicted to their iPhones!!

    PANIC! Study finds that students are addicted to their iPhones!!

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be "addicted" to their iPhones. "When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five – five being addicted and one being not at all addicted – 10 percent of the students acknowledged full addiction to the device, 34 percent ranked themselves as a four on the scale, and only 6 percent said they weren't addicted at all."

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  • Video game addiction is hard

    Video game addiction is hard

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Good God. There's an article that was published on Green Pixels not too long ago that discussed video game addiction. It's your standard-issue “question” piece, where the writer asks a question—can video games be addictive?—and goes to a variety of experts, be they doctors, industry executives, and whatnot, and tries to ascertain their opinion. What's insane, however, is this retort (of sorts) by Neils Clark, who co-wrote the book Game Adiction: The Experience and the Effects, which was published in May. He also teaches at Digipen.

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  • First-of-its-kind Internet addiction treatment center opens in the U.S.

    First-of-its-kind Internet addiction treatment center opens in the U.S.

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Raise your hand if you consider yourself an Internet addict. Go ahead, no one here will judge you. (How could we: all of us are online at least 12 hours per day.) The thing is, if you feel like your addiction actually represents a legitimate problem, fear not, for a new “detox” center, reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Program, has opened near Seattle. It's the first of its kind in the U.S., and it will “help internet and video game addicts overcome their dependence on gaming, gambling, chatting, texting and other aspects of Internet Addiction.”

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