AMA might label Internet as an addiction
June 25, 2007
AMA might label Internet as an addiction
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The American Medical Association plans to vote on a recommendation to classify Internet and video-game addiction as a formal diagnosis.
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The AMA said the heaviest game players are those who play MMORPGs — massive multiplayer online role-playing games — such as World of Warcraft. Those players are more likely to be socially isolated and probably addicted, The Orlando Sentinel said Thursday.
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Steve Jones — a communications professor at the University of Illinois and a research fellow with the Pew Internet and American Life Project — said he is skeptical about calling it an addiction.
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“Just because any activity might interfere with other activities is not enough to call it an addiction,” he told the newspaper.
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Jones said there have been concerns about technology dating back to the 1920s, when people were worried movies were causing children to spend too much time inside.
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Posted by Kevin Makice
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