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by olefoo 4667 days ago
Psychological addictions can be just as deadly as physiological ones. Death from overwork[1], death from playing video games[2], death from avoidable STD's all of these could be classed as deaths resulting from psychological addictions.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi 2. http://www.ranker.com/list/8-people-who-died-playing-video-g...