It all started out as a simple, you know Nintendo * system. Derrick Chambers. Super Nintendo 64, Nintendo, 20 years old, playstation, PS2, and a self-confessed addict. It started out for that half a hour and then it got worse and worse to the point where it became my new life, I had another life. And how many hours a day were you doing it? Eight to plus, that's 8 anywhere from 8 to 14 hours a day.

All those hours spent in the virtual world of a game called " World of Warcraft", a game of intrigue, guile and frequent violence linked via the internet to millions of other players across the globe. Many of them / just casual players, but at a clinic in Amsterdam that normally deals with drug addicts and alcoholics, they have been seeing more and more people who become addicted to gaming.

Well, concering they have almost every system.

Derrcik has been here for 6 weeks and still has a way to go. I can't ever play. You were telling just now what we think we wanna hear. K is a transplant to American and former addict who runs the clinic.

I'm sure of the simple guide and I mean if it looks like a dog if it barks like a dog, and it wags its tail like a dog, it's probably a dog, and gaming addict shows all of the same symptoms all of the same progression. And I think even worse, the consequences're even worse from gaming addiction.

The addicted show some of the same changes in brain chemistry that a drug addict shows. Their family or work or school life can fall apart. They turn inward. Their life becomes all about getting their next gaming fix. A special committee of the American Medical Association has now recognized gaming addiction and recommends it be treated like any other type.

I just could not stop. And I mean I was even taking care of my own house I'm, just a sneaker spot for lunch ,dinner or breakfast.

At some point getting into these games moves from diversion to obsession to addiction. This is the world of World of Warcraft, and to the truly-hooked, this becomes their real world, these become/ their real friends. They don't just play here, they live here.

So we can all identify with you.

The therapy being pioneered here involves going cold turkey and dealing with the life problems that produce the game problems. But there's another difficulty. The drug dependent can learn to stay away from drugs and acoholic can stay out of bars. But sooner or later, every body is going to have to use a computer.

Somebody used to hook on computer, or hook on gaming, as you see that there is nothing wrong with the computer. But we have to help them get to the point where they don't find it necessary to go over to their dealer. And that's as quick as they you know just one-hand movement and they're in the crack house.

The manufacturer denies / its game is deliberately addictive but to some that is exactly what it's become.

How scary is it that you have a game for you? It's pretty scary, you're terrified,yeah.

Mark Phillips, CBS news Amsterdam.

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