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Study: Gamers are more 'Likely' Drunks and Druggies.

January 24, 2009 in News comments 26

A Study conducted at the University of Utah has shown that gamers who play video games on quite often are more likely to be doing drugs and drinking alcohol. Yay! know we have another bad stereotype to our name.

A US study has found that people who play games regularly are more likely to take drugs and drink alcohol than normal people. They could have saved a lot of time and money by just asking us though.

Professor Laura Walker, who led the study from Brigham Young University in Utah, said: "The most striking part is that everything we found clustered around video game use is negative." Makes you wonder if they actually tried to find anything positive.
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  • 1
    The Darkest Shadow Jan 24, 09
    OK. I don't drink alcohol and I've never touched narcotics. (Nor do I have any intention of consuming either one of them)

    Where do these crackpots get the so-called data for these misconcepted embarassments. >_>
    • 2
      Koloth Jan 24, 09
      Yea I don't drink or do drugs either. And I have been gaming for more than 20 years.
  • 0
    ShadowJ Jan 24, 09
    I drink but not enough to be called a drunk/alcoholic..in other words I like a drink but probably only a night out once a month. Hell last time I touched a drop was christmas.

    As to drugs...no, hell I don't even smoke. I hate it when they do crap like this, "ask 100 people this and that and then say every gamer in the world does exactly the same"

    Seriously, does the university actually have something life saving to do like find a cure for cancer and life killing diseases other than degrade the gaming industry even further than that of the media? ¬_¬
  • 0
    Slumpy monkey Jan 24, 09
    All of these so called studies are done poorly.

    They don't even take the MANY varying factors into consideration. All they did was ask 800 uni students, I would hardly call that hard evidence. Any budding scientist would know that correlation=/=proof, and then they didn't even bother to take it further and investigate into the reasoning behind this, which you should do before you release a report.

    I bet the questionnaire went something like this:

    Do you play games?
    (Y)(n)
    Do you drink?
    (y)(n)
    Do you or have you ever taken drugs?
    (y)(n)
    • 4
      Sayyed Jan 25, 09
      The fact that they asked UNIVERSITY STUDENTS if they drink. That is like going to a fat little kid and asking if he likes candy. I wonder what the answer will be ?!
      • 0
        Slumpy monkey Jan 25, 09
        quote Linkin Park Fan
        The fact that they asked UNIVERSITY STUDENTS if they drink. That is like going to a fat little kid and asking if he likes candy. I wonder what the answer will be ?!
        No, then he will say its a medical problem.
  • 1
    dmf_dynasty Jan 24, 09
    Could be the other way around: 'Drunks are more likely gamers.'But that doesn't really make sense either.
  • 0
    Red 9 Jan 25, 09
    This is so ironic for me...
  • 0
    kik36 Jan 25, 09
    I'm definitely guilty of drunk gaming.
    • 2
      ShadowJ Jan 25, 09
      wait does that mean if you play a driving game while drunk, you could get done for virtual DUI?
      • 1
        kik36 Jan 25, 09
        quote ShadowJ
        wait does that mean if you play a driving game while drunk, you could get done for virtual DUI?
        There is nothing quite like getting drunk, running from the cops in Need for Speed, and waking up in your own bed instead of jail the next morning.....LMFAO
  • 0
    Seproth Jan 25, 09
    Why am I not surprised that this came from Utah?
  • 0
    Gamesta100 Jan 25, 09
    The ONLY reason I get drunk is because it gets me out of my shyness.In my 25 years of life I have been drunk about 4 times.

    I don't and NEVER will do drugs.I'm so against drugs that if anyone ever gave a family member drugs I would hunt down that person and put them in hospital.
  • 0
    StewieRox Jan 25, 09
    I'm too young to drink...
    • 1
      Gamesta100 Jan 25, 09
      Gee like that's ever stopped anyone lol
  • 0
    HisServant77 Jan 25, 09
    Hm . . . well obviously none of us GGers are like those things, but just remember that there's a WHOLE lot more people out there that do end up giving this study some merit.

    That said . . . I neither drink, nor do drugs (of course I consider alcohol a drug and therefore included in the "don't do drugs"). But then again, I consider myself very much different from the average gamer. Different from the average/typical guy too! So maybe I'm just an enigmatic exclusion here . . .
    • 0
      kik36 Jan 25, 09
      quote HisServant77
      Hm . . . well obviously none of us GGers are like those things.
      But I admitted openly that I do......drink and game that is.
      • 0
        HisServant77 Jan 25, 09
        Yeah but are you a dunk and druggie?
        • 0
          kik36 Jan 25, 09
          Just a drunk. LMAO But I'm way of age, and a lot of people on this site aren't so I can see why most people on this site don't drink and game. I'm in a job that is tested for drugs very often so don't touch that stuff.
  • 2
    RabidChinaGirl Jan 25, 09
    The title made me laugh pretty hard. I clicked the source, hoping the article would provide some counter point, as many researchers will explain the logic behind their work.

    But no, this study really is just a load of shit. I'm not sure the the article kind of cuts out other information, but the researcher could at least realize she's gonna get some druggies and drunks by using a pool of COLLEGE STUDENTS.

    Don't drink or do drugs myself. Those things would just get in the way of gaming.
  • 0
    Atomic Jan 25, 09
    This study definitely is flawed. By the looks of things, none of us are frequent drug users or alcoholics.
  • 0
    duker nuker Jan 25, 09
    Pretty stupid >.> Something else to discourage people from playing these.
  • 0
    Jagermax Jan 25, 09
    I've never touched drugs, I have had the occasional drink but only been drunk once, which was an accident when I was 11. Grandpa's 80th, haha. Obviously this study is a load of turd.
  • 0
    Zero and X Jan 25, 09
    Study: Gamers are more "likely" to scratch their balls.
  • 0
    Miss Razz Jan 26, 09
    Many (dare I say most) college students drink alcohol on a casual basis. So it's only natural that some of them will also be gamers. But just as many of them probably don't play games either.

    I drink. (I wouldn't say I'm adrunk though). But my drinking has absolutely no relevance to my gaming. My drinking has more to do with my social life, while my gaming has more to do with my personal hobbies.
    • 0
      Zero and X Jan 26, 09
      Agreed, I think its in a relatively rare case when a gamer is a drunk/ druggie "because" of their gaming. The only way I can see that happening though is if they played I Wanna Be the Guy.

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