Phil Elliott
Managing Editor, GamesIndustry.biz

25/11/2008 @ 09:22

Most compulsive gamers are "not addicts"

The founder and manager of the Smith & Jones Centre in Amsterdam - a treatment centre set up in 2006 which offers help to people addicted to videogames - has said that 90 per cent of the people he sees are not addicts, but instead the victim of social problems that could be helped better by a stronger involvement from parents and teachers.

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