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VIDEO: Teen who dropped out of school to play video games goes through treatment in the wilderness
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Teen who dropped out of school to play video games goes through treatment in the wilderness

ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas reports on a teen who was playing video games up to 60 hours per week before his parents sent him to a wilderness program for an intervention.

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