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WHO urged to reconsider gaming disorder

Games industry asks the world body to hold fire on finalising addiction to video games as a medical condition
Reuters Health
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11 January 2019
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Video games are compelling, but does playing them too much constitute a medical condition?

The gaming industry is trying to avoid “gaming disorder” becoming a formally recognised ailment.

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