It’s hard to talk about addiction. The American war on drugs has dedicated over half a century to treating addiction like a crime rather than a disease—portraying drug abuse as a moral failing instead ...

Playing video games may seem like a harmless way to unwind after a long day at work or school. However, gameplay can sometimes dip into something deeper and more consuming. As gaming technology has ...

Food addiction is a real and serious issue that affects many individuals worldwide. Unlike other addictions, food addiction often goes unnoticed because eating is a normal part of daily life. However, ...

As for the peer pressure to download addictive games, I don’t need virtual cats to keep my friends. If friendships are based exclusively on a mutual addiction to a mobile phone app, they’re not real.

If the most headlines about addictive precursors to frightening outcomes determined our concerns about an addiction, video games would be number one on our hit list. News Item (August 14, 2017): ...

Two lawsuits against some of the industry's leading companies, accused of enabling video game addiction, have been voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff. In a review of court records by Game File ...

Four of the biggest companies in the industry have been targeted by a lawsuit accusing them of enabling video game addiction. A complaint filed on October 30 in the Eastern District of Arkansas, ...

I would have played video games, regardless, he said. In high school, each year brought more exciting games with better graphics, but his parents didn t see a problem because all teen boys seemed to ...