Gaming Treating Starcraft addiction with antidepressants

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South Korean psychiatrists claim to have successfully reduced video game addiction by plying the addicts with antidepressant drug Bupropion.

The study was conducted by Han, Hwang and Renshaw from the Department of Psychiatry at Chung Ang University, College of Medicine.

Eleven participants had been categorised as having "Internet Game Addiction", because they played Starcraft on average for at least four hours per day, which actually seems quite modest. However, six of them had been absent from school for more than two months because of their dirty little habit, while two of them had actually been divorced because they played so much.

The group was given Bupropion, an antidepressant and smoking cessation aid for six weeks. After the trial period, their group’s cravings to play Starcraft apparently decreased by 23.6 percent and total playing time decreased by 35.5 percent.

 
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tom_mai78101

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Has it really come down to this? We need to treat video game addictions with drugs?

Now, I should be expecting lots of media news saying negative effects on gaming.
 

Jackal

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North Korea has the solution.

Turn the power off for half the day.
 

ReVolver

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Meanwhile in Korea...
 

tooltiperror

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It's these people who give gamers a bad name.
 

Lobster

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you could say the doctors are... playing with drugs.

Also, pretty weird
 

tom_mai78101

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Not really, we did had some fun with it.

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Ninja_sheep

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Why so passiv-agressive?
If you divorce yourself because of starcraft you got a very serious problem.
 

tooltiperror

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If you divorce yourself because of Starcraft there is probably more to the story.
 

BlowingKush

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WTF

4 hours per day isn't an addiction. Shit a lot of people read books longer then that everyday.
Hell 4 hours is a typical game session for most americans

Personally I play SC 8-9 hours a day and don't consider myself near addiction
 

tom_mai78101

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I'd bet your 8-9 hours a day of SC2 is typically on the weekends and Friday night. While you have school or anything, as long as you keep with your normal routines, you're fine.

But these Koreans, they kept skipping schools for more than 2 months, and that's not your normal routine.
 

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RETIREMENT PARTY AT BUDSMOKES PLACE!!!!

oh you... can't come? oic... playing sc2... gotcha... maybe you can make it for the afterpa... oh you can't? ok.

hmm

=(
 

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an average of over 4 hours a day does seem like a bit much, but here is how I see it: grades, sleep, (real)friends, starcraft 2 - pick 2
 
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