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Thousands...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN: \u003cbr/\u003e              One of the biggest gaming events on the calendar is underway, with the news that the World Health Organisation is to include \"gaming disorder\" in its update on the classification of diseases.\u003cbr/\u003e              Thousands of gamers are in Los Angeles for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo.\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              With the rising popularity of gaming from old to the young there has been an increasing concern that this obvious enthusiasm for gaming could spill over into addiction.\u003cbr/\u003e              Medical practitioners say it is becoming increasingly common among the patients they see for addiction conditions, for example gambling.\u003cbr/\u003e              Christopher Mulligan the founder and clinical director of the Cyber Addiction Recovery Center in Los Angeles explains: \"At the Cyber Addiction Recovery Center, we provide assessment and treatment for technology addiction, which includes video gaming, social media addiction, phone addiction and cyber pornography addiction. Those are the main categories. We work with kids as young as five and all the way through the teenage years and into adulthood.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              According to Mulligan gaming addiction is a behavioural problem which is now more in the mainstream.\u003cbr/\u003e              He believes that if you apply the simple criteria of addiction which is withdrawal symptoms and tolerance, they really have the same negative consequences as other forms of addiction.\u003cbr/\u003e              Mulligan believes children, teens, and adults who are compulsively overuse gaming technology have the same symptoms in the brain so the neurotransmitter dopamine, which is a feel-good neurotransmitter, is stimulated. \u003cbr/\u003e              He says: \"Gamers, texters, kids that are reading and like watching YouTube videos get this dopamine release. When it stops abruptly like when a parent or there's a time they have to stop, they really experience almost spontaneous withdrawals. So it's incredibly fast how quickly they will decompensate, fall apart argue, become irritable agitated even in some cases aggressive to get back to their technology.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              A significant difference in treating gaming addictions according to Mulligan, is that it is not so easy for patients to extricate themselves from environments where the technology is in use.\u003cbr/\u003e              An alcoholic can avoid bars, but Mulligan says when it comes to gamers: \"They're going to have to get back online eventually they're going to have to use their computers, they are going to have to use their phones. So it's really teaching this very challenging goal of a sustainable relationship to technology. So we can't use the approach of drugs, alcohol and gambling because you can unplug and stay unplugged and adopt an abstinence model.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The sheer speed with which the technology has improved and become cheaper and more accessible has added to this trend.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It is so accessible and also the gaming computer which used to be a very high-end, very expensive kind of adult kind of piece of technology is now available at Best Buy so you could go to Best Buy today and for a thousand dollars buy a really good gaming PC. So it's just more it's more accessible to families, it's more accessible to a teenager. A thousand dollars not four thousand dollars or five thousand dollars which is how it used to be. And then all the handheld devices,\" Mulligan explains.\u003cbr/\u003e              Change could be on the way though. \u003cbr/\u003e              According to Mulligan action by the World Health Organisation to list \"gaming addiction\" as a recognised and diagnosable disease will mean those who are addicted can seek medical help and perhaps even get financial assistance from medical insurers. \u003cbr/\u003e              He says: \"I mean the World Health Organization recognizing gaming addiction. So it's supposed to come out in their newest version of their diagnostic manual which is supposed to come out in 2018. So it will allow clinicians and parents also to try to bill for it you know within insurance, so that's that significant, but it also is an important piece of you know sort of evolution in this recognition of this as a problem.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The World Health Authority's 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases, is expected to be released sometime this year.\u003cbr/\u003e              For now though the enthusiasm of the gamers at E3 shows no sign of waning.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US – 12 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of gamers running into E3 expo\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US– 11 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Christopher Mulligan, founder, Clinical Director of Cyber Addiction Recovery Center\u003cbr/\u003e              \"At the Cyber Addiction Recovery Center, we provide assessment and treatment for technology addiction, which includes video gaming, social media addiction, phone addiction and cyber pornography addiction. Those are the main categories. We work with kids as young as five and all the way through the teenage years and into adulthood.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US – 12 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of people playing video games at E3\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US – 11 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Christopher Mulligan, founder, Clinical Director of Cyber Addiction Recovery Center:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"In the context of running social skills groups, which I've done for many years, more and more of my of my clients, my group clients, were presenting with excessive use of technology and it was right around 2011, and then going forward it became more and more of an issue for kids who already had social skills deficits, or already were struggling in some way socially that they were gaming compulsively and that it was getting in the way of them making any progress socially. So my entry was through groups I was already running and seeing a huge uptick in the use of technology, primarily gaming.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US – 12 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various of people playing video games at E3\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US – 11 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Christopher Mulligan, Founder, Clinical Director of Cyber Addiction Recovery Center:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Gamers, texters, kids that are reading and like watching YouTube videos get this dopamine release. When it stops abruptly like when a parent or there's a time they have to stop, they really experience almost spontaneous withdrawals. So it's incredibly fast how quickly they will decompensate, fall apart, argue, become irritable agitated even in some cases aggressive to get back to their technology.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US – 12 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Wide tilt up of people walking through E3\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Mid of people watching games on screen \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US – 11 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Christopher Mulligan, Founder, Clinical Director of Cyber Addiction Recovery Center:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"They're going to have to get back online eventually they're going to have to use their computers, they are going to have to use their phones. So it's really teaching this very challenging goal of a sustainable relationship to technology. So we can't use the approach of drugs, alcohol and gambling because you can unplug and stay unplugged and adopt an abstinence model.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US – 12 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Various of people playing video games at E3\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US – 11 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Christopher Mulligan, Founder, Clinical Director of Cyber Addiction Recovery Center:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It is so accessible and also the gaming computer which used to be a very high-end, very expensive kind of adult kind of piece of technology is now available at Best Buy so you could go to Best Buy today and for a thousand dollars buy a really good gaming PC. So it's just more it's more accessible to families, it's more accessible to a teenager. A thousand dollars not four thousand dollars or five thousand dollars which is how it used to be. And then all the handheld devices.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Various cutaways of Mulligan\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Christopher Mulligan, Founder, Clinical Director of Cyber Addiction Recovery Center:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I mean the World Health Organization recognizing gaming addiction. So it's supposed to come out in their newest version of their diagnostic manual which is supposed to come out in 2018. So it will allow clinicians and parents also to try to bill for it you know within insurance, so that's that significant, but it also is an important piece of you know sort of evolution in this recognition of this as a problem.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, US – 12 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              14. 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