Author: The Fix

Jersey Shore: 'The Situation' Congratulates Ronnie on Recovery

Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino congratulated co-star Ronnie on staying with his recovery on Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.

Jersey Shore became a big hit on MTV, and now that it’s returned as Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino is congratulating Ronnie Ortiz-Magro on his sobriety.

Sorrentino had to make the call from prison, where he’s currently serving an eight-month sentence for tax evasion. The scene was captured for Family Vacation, when Sorrentino’s wife Lauren shows up at Ronnie’s Vegas home to help celebrate the one-year birthday of his daughter.

One Day at a Time

Ronnie’s wife Jen explains that “everything’s good” in her relationship with Ronnie. “Everything is super chill now” that he went to rehab. Jen then told Lauren, “You went through kind of what I’m going through. It’s just good because [Ronnie is] very calm now. It’s completely changed him. And it’s changing me, because I’m not on edge. Everything has just been really good.”

“Listen, it’s hard on him and it’s hard on you,” Lauren replied, “because it’s a new world. When you first start recovery, you’re like a newborn. Sometimes the relationship has to take a back-burner.”

Once ‘The Situation’ speaks to Ronnie on the phone, he congratulates him for getting sober. “I heard that you have a sponsor, you’re doing meetings, and you’re working day at a time at the program, so I’m very proud of you. It works if you work it, buddy.”

“It’s been good so far,” Ronnie replied. “One day at a time.”

Life After Rehab

Early this year, Ortiz-Magro revealed that he entered rehab because he was suffering from depression and alcoholism. “I decided to go to treatment because I wanted to be a better person, a better father for my daughter,” he explained. “Eventually, all the bad decisions I was making were going to lead me to places I didn’t want to be. I wanted to be led to the place that I am now – that’s happy, healthy, and the best role model for my daughter.”

The Situation himself hit his three-year sobriety mark on December 22 last year. Sorrentino had struggled with painkiller addiction, and he went to rehab in 2012 and 2015. “Being sober really taught me how to just be at peace,” he said. “I live my life today at peace…I mean, everything in my life has changed. I really feel awesome today.”

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11 September 2019
Woman Stole Pills from Open Houses, Realtors Say

An Ohio woman has been accused of going to open houses to steal from homeowners’ medicine cabinets.

Homeowners considering hosting an open house might think that the worst thing they’ll have to deal with is nosey neighbors poking around, but law enforcement in Ohio says that people trying to sell their houses encountered something much more egregious: a woman who attended open houses just so she could steal prescription pills.

Officials from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office told 10TV that Amanda Haislar spent three weeks going to open houses and raiding the medicine cabinets. Authorities were tipped off by real estate agents who noticed Haislar’s suspicious behavior, said Detective Sergeant Mike Weiner with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.

“We were contacted by a couple of realtors that were aware of what was going on,” Weiner said.

Catching Her in the Act

To catch Haislar in the act, police set up cameras in a home that was scheduled to have an open house, which they suspected Haislar would attend. The video evidence showed that Haislar headed right for the medicine cabinets in the home.

“She was looking for prescription medication—hydrocodone, Vicodin,” Weiner said. “It was clear to me that she knew exactly what she was looking for. She knew where the items were located. It was a direct path to where she knew she wanted to go.”

To cover her tracks, Haislar replaced the prescription pills with aspirin, potentially putting the homeowners at risk because they were not getting their proper medications.

A Result of the Drug Crisis

Weiner said that Haislar’s actions show just how bad the opioid epidemic is, and the lengths that people will go to access prescription pills. Ohio has been one of the states hardest hit by the opioid epidemic. Although Weiner hasn’t seen people take advantage of open houses before, he has seen the other ways that opioid addiction influences someone to break the law.

“In my experience as an investigator with the Sheriff’s office, this is the first time I’ve seen this specific tactic used by a person to obtain these drugs,” he said. However, it’s far from the first time that he’s seen someone turn to illegal means to support their addiction.

“All the other crime that is associated with it, property theft, stuff like that, all goes up to support those addictions,” Weiner said.

It’s not clear whether Haislar was selling the pills or using them for personal use. She was arrested, but it was not clear what charges she will face for stealing the pills.

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11 September 2019
Courtney Love Refuses to "Sell Out" to OxyContin Heiress at NYFW, Takes It to Instagram

“This request from Joss Sackler is shameless and offensive after everything I, many of my friends, and millions of other addicts have been through with OxyContin,” Love told Page Six.

Manhattan socialite Joss Sackler could not escape the controversy of her family name during this year’s New York Fashion Week.

Ahead of the NYFW presentation of her line, “LBV care of Joss Sackler,” on Monday, Page Six reported that the “OxyContin heiress” offered more than $100,000 and a dress sewn with 24 carat gold thread to Courtney Love to attend the show.

Ties to OxyContin

The Sackler Family owns Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Purdue is fighting a barrage of lawsuits alleging that the pharmaceutical company played a role in fueling the opioid crisis. The company is currently negotiating a settlement ahead of a much anticipated federal trial scheduled to begin in October.

State attorneys general have vowed to go after the family’s wealth as retribution. “I won’t let them get away with their crimes,” said Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Twitter. “I will sue them personally, so that we can dig into their personal pocketbooks.”

David Sackler, Joss’s husband, is the grandson of Raymond Sackler, one of the three company’s founders. David served on Purdue’s board of directors from 2012 to 2018, before the couple “fled town” to escape the controversy, as Page Six reported in May, trading their $6.5 million Upper East Side apartment for a place in Palm Beach, Florida.

Rejected by Courtney Love

Joss Sackler and her team, who are “huge fans” of Courtney Love, assured the Hole rocker that “The brand has no relation to Purdue… other than Joss is married to the family,” according to Page Six.

But Love wasn’t having it. “I am one of the most famous reformed junkies on the planet—my husband died on heroin—what is it about me that says to Joss Sackler, ‘I will sell out to you?’ Well I won’t.”

She continued, telling Page Six, “This request from Joss Sackler is shameless and offensive after everything I, many of my friends, and millions of other addicts have been through with OxyContin.” Love is sober but says she will “always be an opioid addict… I am just in recovery.”

Sackler countered, posting an email screenshot suggesting that Love, instead of rejecting her offer, sought “$275,000 minimum” to attend Sackler’s NYFW event. She wrote “Fake news” in the caption and tagged Love’s Instagram handle. Love responded: “Check me out you bitch. Come for me. Lying sack of #sacklerlies shit.”

Fashion Show

Sackler’s event went ahead as planned on Monday at the Bowery Hotel Terrace. The atmosphere was described by one journalist as “redolent of defiant wealth.”

A friend of the family, Jaya Karamores, defended Joss. “It’s unfair,” she told the Daily Beast. “She’s her own woman and people should see the line before they open their mouths. All she’s seen as is a man’s wife. For her to run a business is amazing.”

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11 September 2019
How IV Amino Acid Therapy Aids in Recovery

IV amino acid therapy works to repair essential amino acids and vitamins that are depleted in the body due to the damage that alcohol addiction causes.

Developing an addiction to alcohol usually comes as a slow burn. At first, drinking is a fun activity that doesn’t affect the body too much. After repeated use over time, the brain begins to identify alcohol as a pleasure enhancing substance, and rewires itself to crave it. This is how an addiction begins. And before you know it, it is out of hand.

Getting help for an addiction is a service that is readily available in today’s world. But just like snowflakes, no two addictions are alike. And with that, receiving the right kind of treatment for addiction is a very different experience for every person.

Ardú Recovery Center of Northern Utah is a treatment facility that recognizes the unique and complex needs of every client that walks through their doors. And for that reason they have developed an array of addiction treatment options to accommodate their clients through comprehensive and holistic programming.

When it comes to the complexities of alcoholism, Ardú (which is an Irish Gaelic word that means “rise up”) offers services to help ease the discomfort of the detox process, followed by a residential track with customized programming options. In conjunction with traditional treatment approaches, Ardú offers an alternative medicine therapy known as IV Amino Acid Therapy.

What Is Amino Acid Therapy?

IV amino acid therapy works to repair essential amino acids and vitamins that are depleted in the body due to the damage that alcohol addiction causes. Ardú is the first recovery facility in Utah to offer this therapy, which is the first step in their detox process. Clients who opt to receive this treatment have two to four hour infusion sessions for up to 10 days. During this time they are relaxing in the center’s relaxing Recovery Lounge and preparing for their next step in treatment.

Why Are Amino Acids Necessary?

Drinking alcohol in excess affects the mind and body negatively over time. Studies have shown that long term alcoholism disturbs brain function, disrupts digestion, affects the immune system and is linked to cancer. Without the body’s ability to properly absorb essential nutrients due to poor digestion, the cell structure begins to break down, which is what eventually leads to chronic illnesses, such as liver and pancreatic damage.

Amino acids are one of the essentials that the body is robbed of if too much alcohol is in the system. There are 20 different amino acids that the body absolutely needs in order to function properly. These amino acids are broken down into categories, which are essential amino acids, nonessential amino acids, and conditionally essential amino acids. All of them are important, though the nine essential amino acids contribute to every important function in the body, including regulating brain chemistry, regenerating muscle, digestion, sexual function, energy production and healing.

In most cases, the amino acids that a person needs to maintain health are found in foods that they eat on a daily basis. However, alcoholics often times don’t consume the proper amount of food regularly, and when they do eat, they aren’t getting the proper balance of nutrition anyway.

What Does This Treatment Actually Do?

The IV amino acid treatment that Ardú provides is slowly administered over the course of the 10 days. During this process the amino acids are able to begin restoring the neurotransmitters in the brain, which balances the brain chemistry and restores balance. Through this process the natural endorphins are able to recalibrate in the brain, which reduces cravings, and allows organs to begin healing.

As the body and mind start to balance out, clients are able to set themselves up to successfully detox from alcohol, and in conjunction with Ardú’s program of therapy, nutrition, stress reduction and other healing approaches, clients begin to regain their energy, feel an improvement in overall mood, and start to see the light at the end of the tunnel of addiction.

Part of a Well-Rounded Treatment Program

With the holistic and personalized approach to addiction treatment at Ardú, clients work closely with experts in their field, and experience cutting edge treatment methods. The IV amino therapy that is offered at Ardú is one piece of the healing puzzle, and when it is combined with other traditional and alternative approaches, clients start to experience a happier, healthier and more productive existence that alcohol has prohibited for so long.

Learn more about Ardú Recovery Center and their programming options at www.ardurecoverycenter.com. Reach Ardú Recovery Center by phone at 801.823.6852. Find Ardú Recovery Center on Facebook.

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11 September 2019
Marie Osmond Still Coping with 'Ripple Effect' of Son's Suicide

Marie Osmond opened up about her son Michael Blosil’s death on CBS Sunday Morning.

Singer Marie Osmond is still haunted by her son’s suicide nearly ten years after it happened, she revealed over the weekend.

Osmond’s son Michael was 18 in February of 2010 when he killed himself by leaping from the eighth-story balcony of his home in Los Angeles. Osmond said on CBS Sunday Morning that most days she relives the pain of that moment.

“You know, I don’t think you’re ever through it,” she said, according to People. “I think God gives you respites, and then all of a sudden it’ll hit you like the day it did. The ripple effect is so huge, what you leave behind.”

Reflecting on Loss

Osmond wrote about Michael’s death in her 2013 book The Key Is Love. “You cry until you can’t cry, and then you cry some more,” she wrote, according to People.

Osmond revealed that six months before Micheal’s death, she had a moment with a fan that would be significant to look back on. “A woman gave me a hug and said, ‘Oh, Marie. You’ve been through depression, divorce, kids in rehab… What haven’t you been through?’” Osmond wrote. “I answered, ‘I haven’t lost a child. That would be the worst thing.’”

Osmond said she was at the Flamingo hotel with her daughter Rachael when her phone rang at 1:30 a.m. It was the security guard from Osmond’s gated neighborhood.

“He said, ‘Someone is here from the coroner’s office. They are coming to the Flamingo to see you,’” she wrote. “My heart dropped to the floor. I said to Rachael, ‘It has to be Michael.’”

When the officer arrived at the hotel and confirmed that Michael had died by suicide, Osmond was gutted. “I thought someone had run a knife into my heart,” she wrote.

Rehab and Depression

Michael had attended rehab in 2007, but it was not made public what he was being treated for. “My son Michael is an amazing young man, shown through his courage in facing his issues,” Osmond said at the time.

However, after his high school graduation, Osmond knew that Michael was depressed. She says that she replays the “what ifs” in her head, and wonders if there is anything she could have done to save her son.

“When I heard him say to me, I have no friends, it brought back when I went through depression, because you really feel so alone,” she told Oprah nine months after Michael’s death. “I’m not a depressed person, but I understand that place, that darkness… I told him, I said, ‘Mike, I’m gonna be there Monday and it’s gonna be OK.’ But depression doesn’t wait ‘til Monday.”

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11 September 2019
OxyContin Maker Expected To File for Bankruptcy

Purdue Pharma is expected to file for bankruptcy protection as the company reportedly failed to settle thousands of opioid lawsuits against them.

After years of reaping massive profits from allegedly deceptive marketing practices around its opioid painkillers, Purdue Pharma is expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy soon, since negotiations to reach a settlement in the scores of lawsuits against the company have failed.

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein updated attorneys general around the country over the weekend, and their letter was obtained by the Associated Press.

“As a result, the negotiations are at an impasse, and we expect Purdue to file for bankruptcy protection imminently,” Slatery and Stein wrote.

A spokesperson for Purdue responded, “Purdue declines to comment on that in its entirety.” In March, Reuters first reported that Purdue was exploring bankruptcy, although there was no official word from the company.

Filing for Bankruptcy

If Purdue Pharma does make a move to file for bankruptcy, it would complicate more than 2,000 lawsuits that municipalities and states around the country have filed against the company. It would almost certainly mean that Purdue would not be part of the opioid lawsuit taking place in federal court Ohio. The first trial in that batch is expected to start next month.

One speculation is that a bankruptcy payout from Purdue could be worth $10 to $12 billion over time, but others say that the payout could be as little as $1 billion, which is small considering the amount of lawsuits against the company.

Seeking Damages

Attorneys vowed that they would continue to seek damages from the company.

“Like you, we plan to continue our work to ensure that the Sacklers, Purdue and other drug companies pay for drug addiction treatment and other remedies to help clean up the mess we allege they created,” Slatery and Stein wrote in their letter.

In some cases, states are personally suing the Sackler family, which has reportedly pulled billions of dollars out of Purdue and moved that personal wealth offshore. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is among those who plans to sue the Sackler family.

“I think they are a group of sanctimonious billionaires who lied and cheated so they could make a handsome profit,” he said. “I truly believe that they have blood on their hands.”

Shapiro took to Twitter Saturday to emphasize his point.

“The Sacklers pioneered our #OpioidEpidemic,” he wrote. “They have blood on their hands. And on behalf of PA’ns, I will sue them personally, so that we can dig into their personal pockets & retrieve some of the money they made. We need this for treatment and other life saving efforts.”

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10 September 2019
Bam Margera Talks to Dr. Phil About Problems, 'Self-Medicating'

Jackass star Bam Margera appeared on Dr. Phil to talk about his recent troubles, including his drinking problem.

Former Jackass star Bam Margera appeared on the season premiere of Dr. Phil on Monday (Sept. 9) to talk about his battles with substance use after his cry for help last month.

On the episode, which was filmed on August 5, Margera talked about how his drinking escalated when he started filming Jackass, according to People.

“If you’re a professional skateboarder, you can’t drink,” he said in a clip from the show. “You need the balance of being on a handrail. I never drank until I was like 22. I never tried drugs until I was like 24.”

However, the outrageous stunts on Jackass left Margera turning to alcohol for liquid courage and pain management.

“When you try a skateboard trick, you’re supposed to land it and ride away,” he said. On Jackass, the stunts were set up to fail. “You’re not going to land it. You’re going to eat shit no matter what. Give me a few shots of tequila and okay, I’m feeling pretty numb. Mission accomplished.”

When Drinking Became a Problem

Margera, 38, said that he knew he had a problem when he needed to drink a beer every morning.

“Before, it was a fun party, let’s get all messed up and go do some crazy stuff,” he said. “Then it came to the point where I felt so terrible in the morning that I knew if I instantly would crack open a beer I would feel better. Then if I had another beer I would feel normal. Then, now that I feel normal I’ll have another and have a little buzz on, so by the end of the day you’re pretty much toasted.”

His drinking became even worse when his Jackass costar Ryan Dunn died in a car accident in 2011.

“After Ryan Dunn died that really exacerbated the alcohol,” Margera’s mother April said on the show. “He almost uses Ryan’s death as a big excuse to behave badly.”

Margera didn’t dispute that — he said that Dunn’s death made him question his life.

Repairing His Family Life

However, he said he reached out to Dr. Phil in hopes of getting help for his whole family, including his mother April and his wife Nikki. “My family’s in shambles,” Margera said.

However, Margera said that his son, Phoenix Wolf, keeps him going.

“He is the raddest kid ever,” Margera said, becoming emotional. “He’s so interested in skateboarding. I have all these toys everywhere and he goes right to the skateboard. He’s like my best friend and I’ve only known him two years.”

Dr. Phil responded, “You’d die for him, but the question is will you live for him?”

After the show filmed in early August, Margera spent the month in and out of rehabs. It’s not clear whether he’s sober at the moment.

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10 September 2019
Jason Wahler Reflects on Making Amends to Lauren Conrad in Recovery: "It's Freeing"

Jason Wahler reconciled with his ex-girlfriend and former The Hills co-star Lauren Conrad as part of his recovery.

Jason Wahler, along with his girlfriend Lauren Conrad, became reality TV stars on Laguna Beach and then The Hills. Wahler also had a major downward spiral from drinking and drugs, but he finally turned himself around and even opened up his own sober living home.

As Wahler explained on the E! show Just the Sip, he used to be a “sad lost individual” who “got to a really, really dark place.” In fact, he even tried to take his own life. “The depths of my addiction took me to not contemplation, but attempting suicide.”

From The Hills to Recovery

Wahler felt his downfall began about ten years ago when The Hills first hit MTV. “I’m not proud of it, but 10 to 12 years ago I was the drunk, womanizing alcoholic,” he says. “I was very lost. After we shot Laguna Beach going into season one of The Hills is when my addiction took full force. Drugs and alcohol were my solution.”

Wahler got sober after hitting bottom, and he did the standard 12-step process of making amends to people you hurt in your addiction. He of course reached out to former girlfriend Lauren Conrad, and back in 2011 he confessed, “There’s stuff that happened in the past with my drunken ways that I need to address.”

Now he says, “Part of the process of recovery and living your life sober is making amends and I made amends to Lauren. It’s freeing. When you can take ownership of your actions and let people know you truly want to make things right and you apologize and you take the actions to fix what you did, it feels good.”

In the past, Wahler said that Conrad was “a big part of my life,” and that “she’s an incredible person and so supportive of anything I do to stay clean.”

Wahler added that he’s “definitely transformed. I’m happy to be able to say that. I’m content in my own skin. I can sit here and look you in the eye and I’m comfortable, I’m confident, I’m happy. I have a great group of people around me.”

Celebrity Rehab

After starring on The Hills, Wahler did a stint on Celebrity Rehab, and he told The Fix, “I think Dr. Drew kind of nailed it on the head. I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says, but I’ve been to a lot of rehabs and seen a lot of doctors, and he’s definitely up there with the best. He said that being young, and being on the TV and limelight and stuff kind of ignited [my alcohol use disorder]. It’s going to come up at some point if you have it, but this lifestyle kind of set fire to it and made it come up a hundred times faster.”

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10 September 2019
1 In 3 Teens Affected By Secondhand E-Cigarette Vapor

Children in vaping households are being exposed to many of the tobacco toxicants in cigarettes, but at lower levels. How this will affect future health is still uncertain.

As the popularity of vaping continues to increase among teens, so does the number of middle and high schoolers exposed to it secondhand.

According to new research, roughly one in three teens said they breathed in vape clouds from other users last year. This is up from the year before, when a relatively fewer one in four breathed the same, says research published in JAMA Network Open.

This new research was based on data collected by the National Youth Tobacco Survey on secondhand inhalation of tobacco smoke or e-cig vapors by middle and high schoolers, taken from the year 2015 to 2018.

Who Is Most Affected?

According to this data, the groups most affected by secondhand vape inhalation were white, female, lived with a vape user, or were vape users themselves.

This incredible growth in secondhand inhalation is in spite of proactive strategies by authorities. As reported by the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, “16 states and more than 800 municipalities have introduced laws to restrict e-cigarette use in 100% smoke-free or other venues, including schools, over the past few years.”

This, researchers propose, is because public opinion hasn’t yet turned against vapes the same way it has against traditional tobacco products.

“This may be owing to the increase in youth using pod-based e-cigarettes and other devices, fewer vape-free policies than smoke-free policies, and fewer people who are willing to speak up against others vaping in public places,” wrote researchers.

Youth Vaping Epidemic

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated one in five high schoolers and one in 20 middle schoolers use vapes. In terms of hard numbers, the amount of middle and high schoolers using vapes went from 2.1 million to 3.6 million between 2017 and 2018, representing an increase of roughly 1.5 new teen vapers. The massive change is reflective of the overall switch from smoking to vaping in the United States in general.

This is largely due to the perception that smoking is less healthy than vaping. While vaping may expose you to fewer chemicals than smoking, “We still don’t know the long-term health effects and most people generally think that they’re safer than smoking cigarettes, so they’re not too worried about exposing others to secondhand vapor,” said Dr. Theodore Wagener of the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Now, Dr. Wagener has just completed a yet-to-be published study on how vaping affects the children living in vaping households.

“We definitely know that they’re being exposed to many of these tobacco toxicants that we saw with cigarettes but it appears to be just at lower levels,” said Dr. Wagener. “What that means for downstream health, we still don’t know. I wish we did.”

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10 September 2019
South Korea Grapples With Line Between Pro-Gaming and Gaming Addiction

Where is the line between professional gamer and person with with gaming disorder?

South Korea, a country where e-sports flourishes, is grappling with a difficult question now that gaming disorder has become officially recognized by the World Health Organization: Is professional gaming actually gaming disorder?

The answer, they’ve determined, is… not really. The WHO has a pretty narrow definition of gaming disorder, where video gaming takes over a person’s life to a point they neglect their family, friends, and job in favor of playing for an extended period of time.

Pro Gamers Practice Self-Discipline

Representatives for professional gaming leagues say that the way in which pro-gamers play is quite the opposite of this.

“Addiction is akin to social isolation. People who are addicted often display lack of interest in the world other than their obsession,” said Kim Jong-seong, a senior manager at the Korea e-Sports Association. “But esports is the opposite — it’s about bringing individual gamers out into the world to teamwork, connect with the mass and possibly gain fame.”

The key difference, he argues, is in the self-discipline practiced by South Korean career gamers.

“Furthermore, professional esports is systematic. For example, if the players spend 12 hours training, they would have specific hours for solo play training, group play training, with regular nutrition intake hours and workouts in between.”

Not only that, but these gamers aren’t neglecting their professional life and financial responsibilities–they’re taking care of them by playing. Expert and sponsored League of Legends players in the country took in an average of 175.6 million won ($145,000 USD) last year. These surveyed gamers are also younger than the average salaryman at an average age of 20.8 years old. The oldest surveyed was 26, while the youngest was just 17.

Can the Quest to Go Pro Lead to Gaming Addiction?

But there is concern for those who toil away at these games to try and go pro but just can’t hack it. These players dedicate themselves to their game of choice at a young age, and experts worry that these youngsters could become addicted to gaming in the process.

“Some scholars point to individuals’ innately impulsive nature as what causes substance addiction, but in the case of behavioral addiction like video game addiction, we don’t have enough evidence yet and socio-psychological factors might play a larger role,” said Prof. Ahn Woo-young, who researches psychology at Seoul National University.

Examples of such socio-psychological effects include the availability of gaming in South Korea’s multitudes of internet cafes as well as children having to occupy themselves with digital entertainment waiting for their parents to return from busy work lives.

Pathologizing Gamers

“A rising number of young people around the world are becoming more passionate about games,” said Arnold Hur, the co-president of esports company Generation Gaming. “However, instead of embracing this trend, many societies have chosen to ignore or even stifle this growing interest. In doing so, passionate gamers are often at risk of becoming marginalized — perhaps even to the extent of being labeled as having a ‘gaming disorder.’”

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10 September 2019