The World Health Organization officially added a new disorder to the section on substance use and addictive behaviors : “gaming disorder”

A gaming disorder is defined as an...

Addiction can include:

• Addiction as a moral transgression, like excessive drinking or drug use.
• Addiction as a scientific disease, which characterize alcoholism and drug addiction as biological.
• Colloquial violation, which applies the term to almost...

• Excessive gameplay is a symptom of a larger problem, like anxiety or depression.
• The fear of possible addiction arrises from moral panic about new technologies, not scientific research or clinical data.
• Making excessive gaming a disorder can harm the gaming industry by stigma...

Experts refer to addiction as a complex behavioral disorder that joins biology, psychology, social environment and culture.

Addiction is now defined as a compulsive engagement in a rewarding experience despite severe consequences. 

• 2+ billion people worldwide play video games 
• A typical gamer in the US spends 12 hours playing each week.
• 60% of gamers neglect sleep to keep playing.
• 40% of gamers have missed a meal.
• In 2018, people worldwide spent a collective nine billion hours watching o...

With the help of hired scientists, game developers have employed many psychological techniques to make their products as unquittable as possible.

• First, players are enticed with easy and pred...