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SUBMITTER: Billieux J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5700712 | biostudies-other | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Billieux Joël J King Daniel L DL Higuchi Susumu S Achab Sophia S Bowden-Jones Henrietta H Hao Wei W Long Jiang J Lee Hae Kook HK Potenza Marc N MN Saunders John B JB Poznyak Vladimir V
Journal of behavioral addictions 20170817 3
This commentary responds to Aarseth et al.'s (in press) criticisms that the ICD-11 Gaming Disorder proposal would result in "moral panics around the harm of video gaming" and "the treatment of abundant false-positive cases." The ICD-11 Gaming Disorder avoids potential "overpathologizing" with its explicit reference to functional impairment caused by gaming and therefore improves upon a number of flawed previous approaches to identifying cases with suspected gaming-related harms. We contend that ...[more]