TV News Station Calls Video Gaming "The New Addiction"

According to WGN, "highly addictive" video games are "changing children's minds"

Are video games really "changing childrens' minds"?

That's the conclusion reached by local Chicago TV news station WGN. The station recently ran a special "Medical Watch" in which it investigated "the new drug of choice for kids."

That drug is, as you may have guessed, video games.

In the segment (which you can watch here), Medical Reporter Dina Bair described games as "highly addictive stimulants" and claims that they are "causing kids to forget about their friends and become impulsive and hot tempered."

Though Bair provides no medical evidence that games are, in fact, addictive "stimulants," the piece includes commentary by a social worker named Robert Kauffman. Kauffman claims that video games are getting "kids addicted to their own adrenaline." He also describes how video game players "tend to act less respectful to their parents."

You can watch the piece in its entirety here, then sound off in the discussion forums.

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