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Works Cited:
Tanner, Lindsey. "Is Video-game Addiction a Mental Disorder? - Technology & Science - Games - Msnbc.com." //Msnbc.com - Breaking News, Science and Tech News, World News, US News, Local News- Msnbc.com//. MSNBC, 22 June 2006. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. . http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19354827/ns/technology_and_science-games/t/video-game-addiction-mental-disorder/#.TsKmz3PQI3J

Summary:
Video games are starting to turn children into little "drug" addicts. They decide to forget about school, family, and other important properties in their lives, just to beat an extra level on a game they have. Parents start taking their "addicted" children to therapists to find out if there is an actual "disease" for playing video games. Games usually effect boys, more than girls. Boys are addicted to violence and shooting; most games are based on that exact purpose. Video game creators have said that they do not believe that their games are supposed to be addicting; it's just the buyers of the games that are addicted. Parents should start taking control of their little "addicts" and start being actual parents.

Quotes:
Joyce Protopapas of Texas; about her 17 yr. old son “He would threaten us physically. He would curse and call us every name imaginable,” she said. “It was as if he was possessed.”

A woman in the New Haven, Conn., area who bought the game for her 15-year-old son said "Now that I look back on it, it’s like I went out and bought him his first Jack Daniel’s"

Dr. Karen Pierce, a psychiatrist at Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital "I saw somebody this week who hasn’t been to bed, hasn’t showered ... because of video games,” she said. “He is really a mess.”

Facts:
1. After a 12 hour gaming session, a 13 yr. old boy said he felt suicidal and wondered if he was addicted

2. "Over nearly two years, video and Internet games transformed him from an outgoing, academically gifted teen into a reclusive manipulator who flunked two 10th grade classes and spent several hours day and night playing a popular online video game called World of Warcraft."

3. American Medical Association; council asks the group to lobby for the disorder to be included in a widely used mental illness manual created and published by the American Psychiatric Association