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/^t/It is often very difficult to overcome drug and alcohol addiction as well as all the problems connected with them. Therefore, instead of hanging out at arcades with their friends, children should devote most their free time to other activities and hobbies. Unfortunately very few kids, as well as the parents, understand this. The result is that many children can hardly read and write, not to mention other skills such as painting, typing, playing various instruments, etc. They completely give up sports. Very few of them ride a bike or a horse, swim or play football. All their time and interests are devoted to video games. It can result in very devastating effects on their health and physical as well as mental condition. Many of the video game funs suffer from back and eye problems as they are stareing at computer screen far too long. Moreover, such kids don't play outdoors, don't make friends, never meet interesting people, or reed good books. As far as education is concerned, video games definitely do not serve as a valuable source of information.