Chicago ? Video-game buffs might feel hooked on their favorite titles, but they won’t be officially addicted any time soon.

Saying the issue needed more study, the American Medical Association on Wednesday scaled back a controversial proposal that sought to declare excessive video-game playing a mental disorder akin to pathological gambling.

The 250,000-member physician organization drew national headlines last week by pressing forward on a proposal to “strongly encourage” that video-game addiction be labeled a formal disorder. The proposal would have asked the American Psychiatric Association to consider including “video-game addiction as a formal diagnostic disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, considered by experts to be the authoritative handbook on mental illness.

Instead, the medical association on Wednesday removed the word “addiction” and decided to simply forward its report expressing concerns about “video-game overuse” to the psychiatric group, which is embarking on a revision of its mental health manual.