WoW as Addictive as Cocaine

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WoW as Addictive as Cocaine

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According to The Local, which bills itself as Sweden's news in English, the Youth Care Foundation has branded Blizzard's MMO World of Warcraft as the most dangerous game in terms of addiction and goes as far as calling it "the cocaine of the computer games world."

The report is still unpublished, but details were given out to Swedish media. Sven Rollenhagen of the foundation reportedly told the Swedish newspaper Metro that "there is not a single case of game addiction that we have worked with in which World of Warcraft has not played a part."

The Youth Care Foundation, according to The Local, "works to advocate active alternatives to gaming," though it also deals with other forms of addiction. This isn't the first time The Local has reported on World of Warcraft, as it reported in November of last year that a Swedish boy was admitted to a hospital after collapsing during a 20-hour World of Warcraft binge.

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This report is new but the knowledge of this is pretty old.
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How many of these people who say WoW is addicted as cocaine actually tried cocaine?

This is old news . It used to be EverQuest that is addicting, and now it is WoW.
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