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Internet Addiction Addiction is a condition whereby as individual regularly takes a substance, or acts in a particle way, in response to a strong and sometimes overwhelming desire to do so; and that in the absence of so doing, he will experience negative feeling or actual illness. By taking the substance or carrying out the behaviour, the addict causes harm to himself or others. Applying it to “online game addiction”, it would be a condition that an individual regularly play online game, driven by a strong and sometimes overwhelming desire, which causes harm to himself or others, such as health problems. Addicts are involved in doing something that is harmful to themselves or others in response to strong desire to do so, and a fear of what will happen if they don’t. Addiction is usually divided into two broad areas: chemical addiction and psychological addictions. Unlike drugs and alcohols which can affect the body chemically by stimulating the central nervous system, online games itself have no such physical effects on the gamer itself. Therefore, online game addiction is believed to be psychological in nature. The use of the Internet has become more and more popular in China. According to a survey carried out by Break Through in 2002, 89.2% 1.63 million of teenagers aged from 10 to 29 have access to the Internet. Among them, 34.1% 0.4 million has engaged in online games, 5.4 times larger compared with that during 2000 6.3 % . This number is expected to rise this year with the increase of online games available on the market and the flooding of online game advertisements. Cheaper computers, together with cheaper broadband services and Internet charges, means that more people can afford to play online games, contributing even more to the increase. One problem that arises from the growing use of the Internet is online game addiction. In many other developed countries such as the U.S.A, Japan, and Korea, online game addiction has become more and more common and w