Tue, Nov 03, 2009 | 12:37 GMT
Britain gets first games rehab clinic
Britain now has a games rehab clinic. The Telegraph has the story. Apparently, “Suffers [sic] spend days at a time glued to their computer screens – going without food, sleep, or any social interaction.”
Broadway Lodge is a residential unit in Weston-super-Mare, and treats around 400 addicts a year for a range of issues including, drink, drugs, gambling… and computer gaming addiction.
Hit the link for some vaguely-veiled fascistic scaremongering.
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Tags: addiction, Broadway Lodge
4 comments
#1
Ashelia Bnargin Dalmasca
03/11/09, 12:40 pm
You’d think the Telegraph, of all sources, would be able to proof-read the grammar of their articles…
#2
deftangel
03/11/09, 12:43 pm
I’d like to know on what the quote “5-10% of parents know someone suffering from game addiction” was based on, if anything. It reads like the guy just plucked it out of thin air.
Then again, denying that there is *any* issues relating to game addiction isn’t helping anyone either.
#3
Gekidami
03/11/09, 12:49 pm
“5-10% of parents know someone suffering from game addiction”
In other words 5-10% of parents know someone who plays video games and wrongly assumes the person is addicted because they play alot.
#4
Retroid
03/11/09, 12:54 pm
@Gekidami: exactly.
I’m sure the people being accused of addiction in that figure could say a rather larger percentage of those parents suffer from “soap series addiction”, “reality TV addiction” or “generally shitty TV addiction”.