General Article ‘Spiritual opium’: could gaming addiction ruin a generation?

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It’s an industry worth billions but more than 86 million players have a dangerous obsession – and the pandemic has only made things worse.

By Annabel Heseltine

It will surely never happen again – but every parent must have been nodding in agreement with the Chinese state media yesterday. That’s because it declared online games were ‘spiritual opium… that has grown into an industry worth hundreds of billions... No industry, no sport, can be allowed to develop in a way that will destroy a gener...

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