ESA Issues Statement On WHO "Gaming Disorder" Diagnosis

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the trade group for the video game industry, has issued a statement regarding the World Health Organization's new "gaming disorder" disease. The statement is highly critical, citing contested and inconclusive data and concerns of misdiagnosis. It urges the WHO to reconsider before officially placing it in the final version of the medical classification document.The disorder was named in a draft of the upcoming International Classification of Diseases