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The World Health Organization Is Now Warning Against the Health Effects of Playing Video Games

The World Health Organization is likely to add gaming disorder to its newest diagnostic manual.

The World Health Organization Is Now Warning Against the Health Effects of Playing Video Games
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As anyone who has downloaded Candy Crush knows, it‘s hard to stop playing a game once you get going. But for some, video games are downright addictive—and that can impact their daily functioning. A new draft of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2018 International Classification for Diseases recognizes this by including—for the first time—“gaming disorder” in the manual.

The WHO’s diagnostic manual is widely used, and was last updated in 1990. The latest version—called ICD-11—is expected to be published in 2018.

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