From: briticanlankey@bresnan.net   
      
    Are any of your children suffering from *VGAD*?   
   Video Game Addictive Disorder!   
   Do not worry, help may soon be on the way.   
   Some medical experts claim that video games can be as addictive as heroin,   
   and they want the addiction added to the ever-growing list of psychiatric   
   disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's mental illness   
    manual.   
   If that were to happen, all kinds of unintended things just might follow.   
   Any health plans that  now cover mental illness will have to pay for   
   treatment to wean young children away from the latest violent crop of video   
   games.   
   So what if it raises the cost of health care premiums for everyone else.   
   It is a disease for pity's sake.   
   And drug companies will no doubt create a new wonder pill to assist with   
   your Childs effort to go cold turkey from the computers joy stick.   
   However not everyone has joined the video-game addiction bandwagon.   
   There more sensible medical experts say that it is nothing more than a   
   bad-habit and it would be wrong to classify it as an official psychiatric   
   malady.   
   Perhaps those rational voices will prevail when the American Medical   
   Association takes up the question at its annual policy meeting in Chicago   
   this week.   
   The debate, expected to be intense, could come as early as today.   
   And, if the voices of common sense are to be successful in keeping video   
   games addiction off the list of officially recognized psychiatric ailments,   
   perhaps they can offer this prescription to parents worried about their   
   children's becoming video-game addicts.   
   Get rid of the Game Boy and lock up the Play Station.   
   The greatest gift you can spend on your children is your time.   
      
      
      
    "There are no enemies in science just anomalies"   
      
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