General Article Digital addiction: how technology keeps us hooked

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Raian Ali, Bournemouth University; Emily Arden-Close, Bournemouth University, and John McAlaney, Bournemouth University

The World Health Organisation is to include “gaming disorder”, the inability to stop gaming, into the International Classification of Diseases. By doing so, the WHO is recognising the serious and growing problem of digital addiction. The problem has also been acknowledged by Google, which recently announced that it will begin focusing on “Digital Well-being”.

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