Totally wired: Why are so many young people addicted to video games?
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Locked in their bedrooms, playing video games into the small hours, children as young as 10 years old are now addicted to their consoles. Tim Lewis hears how the compulsive games can be impossible to resist – and meets the experts tackling the issue
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But it’s so much easier to just blame the one thing, pretend to do something about it, and claim we’ve made progress.

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It’s not just that it’s easier to not fix the fundamental societal issues, it’s that the politicians make money from not fixing them.

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