Vox (12/6, Lopez) reports in an article about video game addiction that “this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) for the first time recognized ‘gaming disorder’ in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).” By doing so, “the WHO joined the American Psychiatric Association (APA), which had previously added ‘internet gaming disorder’ as a phenomenon worthy of more research in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
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— “Video game addiction is real, rare, and poorly understood, ” German Lopez, Vox, December 06, 2018.