Article Excerpt: Lynn Fiellin, MD, had heard it over and over from patients she was treating for addiction and other related conditions: ‘If only I knew as a kid what I know now.’
So Fiellin decided to test that proposition. Could she find a way to effectively communicate adult lessons to children, and in doing so prevent them from ever facing addiction, sexually transmitted infections like HIV, or other negative health outcomes?…Fiellin noticed that her children were enthralled by video games—so much so that it could be difficult to get them to come to dinner sometimes. “It was clearly so compelling, and it struck me that maybe this could be the vehicle to deliver that type of prevention intervention,” she says.
Now, Fiellin builds games to prevent those ‘what I wish I knew’ moments, leveraging the power of play to instill healthy behaviors in young people around the globe. And it’s working.
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