According to the American Psychiatric Association, "Roughly 160 million American adults play internet-based games, one recent study estimates. The games can be very entertaining, and it may be easy to get absorbed in the competition, but can they be addictive? That is a question still being debated among researchers and health professionals." (American Psychiatric Association, n.d.)
To create this episode, I used information provided by the American Psychiatric Association which can be found here: https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/internet-gaming
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