{"id":135432,"date":"2025-11-12T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135432\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T07:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:49:12","slug":"addiction-expert-warns-over-loot-boxes-and-lure-of-online-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135432\/","title":{"rendered":"Addiction expert warns over \u2018loot boxes\u2019 and lure of online gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Consultant psychiatrist Dr Colin O\u2019Gara at the St John of God research conference in Dublin. Photo: Marc O\u2019Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7eade79a-e86d-4227-bfea-7e2a6096a707.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Consultant psychiatrist Dr Colin O\u2019Gara at the St John of God research conference in Dublin. Photo: Marc O\u2019Sullivan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A leading psychiatrist has called for greater controls on \u201cloot boxes\u201d \u2013 \u00advirtual treasure chests in video games that give players prizes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Professor Colin O\u2019Gara, head of addiction services in St John of God Hospital in Dublin, was warning about internet gaming disorder and the need to protect young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consultant psychiatrist Dr Colin O\u2019Gara at the St John of God research conference in Dublin. Photo: Marc O\u2019Sullivan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4593,103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-135432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}