«If you go into PubMed [the search engine for the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest biomedical library] there are maybe 20 articles that include «smartphone addiction» as a term, and most of those articles just talk about smartphone
addiction as a phenomenon,» notes Choi.
The Board has written that the game was refused classification
as one that depicts «matters of sex, drug misuse or
addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent
phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.»
The portrayal of adolescent substance use treatment
as a brief clinical encounter that either works (complete and enduring abstinence following treatment) or does not work (any drug use following treatment) is inconsistent with the actual
phenomenon of adolescent
addiction and recovery.