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Worried About Your Kids and Video Game Addiction?

You Should Be!

Here is a common list of things that are known to be addictive: alcohol, nicotene, painkillers, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, inhalents, sedatives and…video games. The emotional and physical experience of playing a video game is a classic dopamine rush to the brain and the more our kids play, the more they want. Why? Behind the technical creation of every video game is the intentional, behavioral component of addiction masterminded by the game creators. What do you do when you are an individual that helps create this addictive behavior and now have children of your own? Click here to read about one father’s story and the risk he is not willing to take.