At times an addict's desire to engage in their opiate of choice can surpass their capacity
for rational thought. Recent findings suggest that video game addicts can engage in a similarly
psychotic path of behavior (Rosenfeld, 2001) to the point that they would jeopardize their own
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health or relationships or basic daily needs (Hart et al., 2009) in favor of playing video games,
which all the more emphasizes the need for empirically based research regarding the
phenomenon