The opioid epidemic is driven by more than the sale of illicit drugs, increased opioid prescribing and the pandemic. Stigma fills the lives of many people living with opioid addiction, exacerbating ...

(Bloomberg) -- Debbie Vitany is fighting a losing battle against Fortnite. Her 17-year-old son, Carson, has been logging 12 hours a day on the video game, searching for weapons and resources in a post ...

Lisa Pont has heard plenty of skepticism about video game addiction and whether it's truly a medical condition that should be classified as a disease, as the World Health Organization plans to ...

GENEVA — For video game addicts, it might soon be “game over.” In its latest revision to a disease classification manual, the World Health Organization said Monday that compulsively playing video ...

Lisa Pont has heard plenty of skepticism about video game addiction and whether it’s truly a medical condition that should be classified as a disease, as the World Health Organization plans to ...

Dexter McMillan is a freelance journalist. A few days after the COVID-19 pandemic began, I messaged a friend from high school. We used to play a video game called World of Warcraft together. I was ...

Kendal Parmar has gone to extraordinary lengths to curb her son's addiction to video games, including sleeping with her children's devices in her bed so he can't use them in the middle of the night.

Lawyers have been furiously filing lawsuits that take on the biggest video game corporations over allegations of video game addiction: that developers and publishers intentionally make their games as ...

Apr. 28—TRAVERSE CITY — Timmy Gies enjoyed hockey, cooking and Star Wars, among other things. Alcoholism took those things from him and took Timmy from his family at age 33, leaving behind a wife and ...

Tencent, the world's largest video game publisher, will implement age restrictions for all of its titles in China in 2019. Player identities will be verified using China's national citizen database ...

Cam Adair liked to bang with the biggest of ’em.

Earlier this month, Montreal-based Consumer Law Group (CLG) published a notice expressing its intent to investigate a class-action lawsuit against a variety of video game giants on behalf of Casey and ...