Article Excerpt: A dark room, head set on, controller in hand, a world flashing across a big screen. Video games are often associated with an escape from reality and immersion into an online world of competition where hours can evaporate in a flash. But what if such games could help teach young people how to avoid addiction?
Over the course of a decade as an addiction medicine doctor, Lynn E. Fiellin saw patients who were already struggling with drug addiction as young adults.
“If only I knew then what I know now,” she recalled them telling her.
Fiellin agreed. If there were a way to get the right information and skills to children before addiction took hold, she believed the problem could be prevented for many of them.
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Article Source: Boston Globe