Quote Originally Posted by Useless View Post
I think your naive when you consider gaming to be with drugs. Drugs are addictive to the mind and the body is forced to take them more because they are dependent on those.

gaming on the other hand are hobbies for people that hate their own social life. Anyone who has a nice life would voluntarily stop playing to go hang with friends. But for people that don't get invited to chill play games instead.
Not completely true.
There are drugs that are not physically addicting. Marijuana is one of them.
As for mental addiction, anything can be mentally addicting. What is and isn't depends on the person.
So yes, games can be addicting. Not for everyone, no. But it can be.