Computer Gaming Addicts Anonymous
Computer Gaming Addicts Anonymous is a twelve-step fellowship for recovery from video game addiction[1][2][3][4][5][6]. It was started in 2014 by a group of computer game addicts, who had previously been part of On-Line Gamers Anonymous.
The fellowship provides a program of recovery based around a modified version the twelve steps and twelve traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. As of August 2017, it consists of an online meeting group facilitating several meetings daily[7], 13 face-to-face meeting groups with listed meetings (mostly in the US)[8], and an online forum for discussion of recovery and addiction. The fellowship also runs an email and (US-based) telephone hotline.
History
The name CGAA was adopted in 2014, by a group of people who had previously been organized as part of On-Line Gamers Anonymous (OLGA), a recovery program aiming to help both excessive gamers and their relatives. The group indeed saw itself as the continuation of OLGA under a different name. The main reason for the split was a perceived failure of the management of OLGA and the olganon.org website to follow the twelve traditions, and the negative consequences this had for the ability to grow the membership[9].
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