I don't know what it is, but is it just me, or can nobody else not stand people who give an opinion and then back down from it once people start disagreeing with it and prove they aren't popular. The AMA classifying games as an addiction was pretty silly in the way they did it, but at least they gave an opinion. After many naysayers, though, they've gone back on what they said and have decided it is up to the APA to make that decision instead. Way to go and pass the buck there AMA.

From the article:

Doctors backed away on Sunday from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the issue more.

Addiction experts also strongly opposed the idea at a debate at the American Medical Association's annual meeting.

They said more study is needed before excessive use of video and online games -- a problem that affects about 10 percent of players -- could be considered a mental illness.

"There is nothing here to suggest that this is a complex physiological disease state akin to alcoholism or other substance abuse disorders, and it doesn't get to have the word addiction attached to it," said Dr. Stuart Gitlow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

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