Including gaming disorder in the ICD-11: The need to do so from a clinical and public health perspective

Rumpf, Hans‐Jürgen; Achab, Sophia; Billieux, Joël; Bowden‐Jones, Henrietta; Carragher, Natacha; Demetrovics, Zsolt; Higuchi, Susumu; L. King, Daniel; Mann, Karl; N. Potenza, Marc; B. Saunders, John; Abbott, Max; Ambekar, Atul; Tolga Arıcak, Osman; Assanangkornchai, Sawitri; Bahar, Norharlina; Borges, Guilherme; Brand, Matthias; M. L. Chan, Elda; Chung, Thomas; Derevensky, Jeff; El Kashef, Ahmad; Farrell, Michael; Fineberg, Naomi; Gandin, Claudia; A. Gentile, Douglas; D. Griffiths, Mark; E. Goudriaan, Anna; Grall‐Bronnec, Marie; Hao, Wei; C. Hodgins, David; Patrick, Ip; Király, Orsolya; Lee, Hae‐Kook; J. Kuss, Daria; S. Lemmens, Jeroen; Long, Jiang; López-Fernández, Olatz; Mihara, Satoko; M. Petry, Nancy; M. Pontes, Halley; Rahimi‐Movaghar, Afarin; Rehbein, Florian; Rehm, Jürgen; Scafato, Emanuele; Sharma, Manoi; Tornaim Spritzer, Daniel; J. Stein, Dan; Tam, Philip; Weinstein, Aviv; Wïttchen, Hans‐Ulrich; Wölfling, Klaus; Zullino, Daniele; Poznyak, Vladimir

doi:10.1556/2006.7.2018.59

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Including gaming disorder in the ICD-11: The need to do so from a clinical and public health perspective

Published in Journal of Behavioral Addictions • Jul 2, 2018

Authors:

Hans‐Jürgen Rumpf

Sophia Achab

Joël Billieux

Abstract

The proposed introduction of gaming disorder (GD) in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) has led to a lively debate over the past year. Besides the broad support for the decision in the academic press, a recent p...

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