When should gaming be considered a behavioral addiction?

When should gaming be considered a behavioral addiction?

Marc Kern (Addiction Expert, Director of Addiction Alternatives) gives expert video advice on: What is "computer game addiction"?; What causes "internet gaming addiction"?; Why are computer games so addictive? and more...

From my reading I don't know of any specific criteria, where we as professional would say: this is a video addict today or a gaming addict. But, I do believe parents have an important role to play in supervising kids as well as adults in how much time they spend on video games and on the internet. What the child doesn't know or understand is that they're getting reinforced every minute they sit there with that video game, and if that becomes their only mechanism of feeling good, other adaptive ways of coping with life from having fun don't develop. They just go by the wayside, and in actuality, you could raise a child in a home with lots of video stuff, and never encourage them to go outside and on some level you'd be fostering an addict and fostering a reliance on mechanics rather than people to feel good about yourself.