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Gutboy Barrelhouse
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on: June 08, 2006, 05:14:47 PM

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/08/D8I489R80.html

Only for Euro's how about us Americans? Or do they offer a vacation package with reduced airfare to attract people outside Europe.


"Symptoms of addiction are easy to spot, Bakker says. Parents should take notice if a child neglects usual activities, spends several hours at a time with the computer and has no social life."
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Reply #1 on: June 08, 2006, 05:31:00 PM

There are expensive drugs available from leading pharmaceutical companies for Americans.

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Reply #2 on: June 08, 2006, 05:32:50 PM

See, that's why America's awesome.  We have a pill for everything.

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Reply #3 on: June 08, 2006, 06:10:16 PM

The pill for video game addicts, I think, is Ritalin. Or rather, it was in the 80s.
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Reply #4 on: June 08, 2006, 10:42:37 PM

Those people took drugs to stay awake longer? What a bunch of wusses. In our day we managed that with just the rush of a good game. Youngsters these days...
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Reply #5 on: June 09, 2006, 07:57:55 AM

Or an energy drink.


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Reply #6 on: June 09, 2006, 09:03:40 AM

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Bakker already has treated 20 video game addicts, aged 13 to 30, since January. Some show withdrawal symptoms, such as shaking and sweating, when they look at a computer.
Sensationalistic? Rediculous? Netherlands. Hrm.
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Reply #7 on: June 09, 2006, 04:19:28 PM

I just power leveled to step 12 of my addicition program, end game sucks, I'm going to reroll.

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Reply #8 on: June 12, 2006, 12:10:36 AM

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in-house treatment for people who can't leave their joysticks alone.
Could someone please kill the auther of this "article" ?

Slow and painfull, if possible ?


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