Video Games are like Cocaine!

So I was on my ISP's homepage, checking my bill, and I saw a link to this article;  http://www.lep.co.uk/lifestyle/gaming_addiction_grips_youngsters_1_773488,  
Kotaku have a summary of it if you don't want to read the whole thing;  http://kotaku.com/5548908/how-much-cocaine-is-two-hours-of-gaming-worth? 
I can't begin to explain how pissed off this makes me. I have one question; when is gaming going to stop getting such a bad press?

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Cocaine is better.

I don't think this article actually answered the question "why are videogames like cocaine?"

" Cocaine is better. "

You can't snort a video game even a small DS cart but you can snort cocaine off a video game.

I agree. Video games are like cocaine. They both make me grind my teeth, change my behavior, and keep me up all night.

Guys, listen to this right, listen....  World of Warcrack!  Hahaha!  You guys get it right?  Crack as in crack cocaine??  As in Warcraft?  World of.... world..... huhhhhhh.

" Cocaine is a hell of a drug. "

" Cocaine is better. "

" I agree.

I'm going to go sniff the case of Battlefield Bad Company 2....... (runs) 
 
Aaaaaaaahhh Much better.

I can't be the only one that thinks there is some merit to saying games are addictive?  I understand the outrage;  addiction is a pretty loaded word.  However, addicted does described a pretty decent chunk of gamers, especially of the teenage variety. 
 
The cocaine comparison is probably over the top though.

So videogames inhibit dopamine transporters? I see...

Ya games are addictive.  Just a form of Escapism though.  It's no more addictive than anything else.  Even less so because it nothing more than a mental addiction I would say. 
 
@homewrecker said:

" I don't think this article actually answered the question "why are videogames like cocaine?" "

  "A lot of young people get themselves into a situation where they use video games as an escape from the world and they get hooked on the release of adrenaline it gives," says Pope. "Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces."

It shouldn't piss you off, it should just learn you that there are stupid as well as insane people in the world, and a lot of people who don't know what the fuck they're talking about. When you start talking about kids that went for 24 hours without eating and threatened to jump out the window you're clearly just picking out the most extreme cases, instead of the average person. And kids like that have a lot more going on than video game addiction if they behave like that and any moron with more than two brain cells knows that. There are addictive qualities to games, especially stuff like World of Warcraft, but to then draw the conclusion that gaming as a whole can be compared to cocaine is maybe, slightly, just very slightly pushing it a little bit.

Sounds like bad parenting to me. Possibly even neglect. 
 
The child has no form of discipline obviously. Never has.
 
Parents like that disgust me. Own up to your mistakes.

Games will stop getting bad press when all the old people die.

" Sounds like bad parenting to me. Possibly even neglect.   The child has no form of discipline obviously. Never has.  Parents like that disgust me. Own up to your mistakes. "

Media scare................be afraid the tabloids are out.

Sounds like he's trying to make a name for himself by spewing feces out between his lips

I like my cocaine like I like my women- white. 
 
EDIT: Wait, that didn't come out right.

" You can't snort a video game even a small DS cart but you can snort cocaine off a video game. "