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World Service,3 mins

Addictive power of video games

Newshour

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Psychiatrists are divided over whether playing video games obsessively should be classed as an addiction. Now a key advisory council to the French government has weighed in to the debate - saying that treatment of compulsive video-gaming should be a higher priority for the state. Elizabeth Woolley - whose son died after obsessively playing video games and who went on to found Online Gamers Anonymous in the United States - believes video gaming should be treated as an addiction. (Photo credit: Âé¶¹Éç)

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