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Video game addiction is a mental health disorder, WHO says

A teenager holding a controller to play a video game on a Microsoft Xbox One console.

A teenager holding a controller to play a video game on a Microsoft Xbox One console. Source: AAP

The World Health Organization has made it official: Video games can be addictive.



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