Death of her 21-year-old son Shawn, who committed suicide in 2001 while playing Everquest

video game addiction has fallen off the radar ever since the American Medical Association declined to classify it as an official diagnosis last summer.
However a local Canadian TV station revived the topic for a recent segment. Weighing in were Liz Woolley, founder of Online Gamers Anonymous (and occasional GamePolitics visitor), Mark Ouellette, professor of pop culture at Ontario’s McMaster University, and Faith from Destructoid, who writes:
It really bothers me that the con side of the conversation got more air time… especially when I had the academic on my side… Games may be the stuff of peoples’ addictions sometimes, but they are never the cause…
Liz Woolley, of course, got into the game addiction topic following the death of her 21-year-old son Shawn, who committed suicide in 2001 while playing Everquest