From [URL=http://www.theepochtimes.com/]The Epoch Times[/URL]:

The online gaming industry is also reluctant to suggest that vigorous video gaming could be classified as an addiction. Green Pixels, a site providing information of online gaming ran an article earlier this year titled, “Game Addiction: Real Threat or Media Hype?” They write that according to Entertainment Consumers Association President Hal Halpin, comparing video games to drugs is “absurd and baseless media hype. The problem with that argument is that it’s dependent on a faulty hypothesis: games, like music and movies, aren’t literally consumed or ingested the way that alcohol, tobacco, or narcotics are.”

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