Lol you can't be addicted to a form off entertainment. It's physically impossible. If you took away there games there bodies wouldn't start shaking a hallucinating. They would just be angry because that WANT to play games not NEED to.

http://www.ibtimes.com/gamer-dies-internet-cafe-after-three-day-gaming-binge-hardly-anyone-notices-1787936

That is not addiction, just plain stupidity.

I injected a Call of Duty once and tried to have sex with a next gen fish AI.
Never again.

Just because there are similar chemical releases in your brain doesn't make them equal. That same dopamin and serotonin is released when you spend time with someone you like (be it romantically or as a friend), yet you wouldn't say that being in love is no different than being a junkie?

Your argument will not hold in court.

Umm but he still wasn't addicted. He just happend to have a Heart attack while playing on a computer. Im guessing his overall health was bad.

Yes, and Elvis was not addicted either, he just happened to snort or inject too much.

That's like saying everything you enjoy doing is a drug.

I dont think its an addiction because it doesn't cause dependency. If say, you go to school or work, the urge will pass and you don't incur in any physical withdrawal symptoms.

So... no, its not. Its a hobby.

So lovers are no different from drug addicts now?

Relationships have ended because of a lot of things... Including love. Actually, I'd say especially because of love

There are people who are addicted to gaming, but those people are a much smaller group than even the so called "hardcore" gamers.