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The WHO makes ‘gaming disorder’ official despite industry pushback

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech The WHO makes ‘gaming disorder’ official despite industry pushback

The World Health Organization (WHO) over the weekend finalized the eleventh revision of its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), which now includes “gaming disorder” and “hazardous gaming” as part of its list of behavioral disorders. Naturally, the gaming industry itself have been pushing back hard against the classification, but there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that it exists. This decision has been in the works for a while. The first draft of the WHO’s new ICD was published in January 2018. This weekend’s decision was more of a final confirmation that the various organizations within the gaming…

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Authored by Piyush Suthar
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