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Guide to Video Game Addiction Guide to video game addiction
Video game addiction overview Video game addiction overview
What are the symptoms? What are the symptoms?
Take the MediaWise Addiction Survey Take the MediaWise Addiction Survey
Take the MediaWise I'd Rather Test Take the MediaWise I'd Rather Assessment
Preventing video game addiction Preventing video game addiction
Want to make a change? Want to make a change?
Change Plan Family Change Plan
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Guide to Video Game Addiction Top Gun when a video game
Top Gun - Watch Full Episode | CBC News: the fifth estate Top Gun - Watch Full Episode | CBC News: the fifth estate
    On the 2008 Thanksgiving weekend, Steve and Angelika Crisp confiscated
    their son Brandon's Xbox. Brandon retaliated by running away from home.
   (40 Minutes)

Top Gun - Dr. David Walsh, Media in the Family | CBC News: the fifth estate Top Gun - Dr. David Walsh, Media in the Family | CBC News: the fifth estate
    When video gaming obession turns to addiction and tragedy (10 Minutes)

Video game addiction research study

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Pathological Video-Game Use Among Youth Ages 8 to 18 The first study with a nationally representative sample demonstrating the prevalence of “pathological” game play among American youth is published in the Association for Pyschological Science.
   
 
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