UVic Study for Video Game Assessment

Apparently, UK counselor and therapist Steve Pope in the Lancashire Evening Post has declared in the Lancashire Evening Post that playing 2 hours of video games is the equivalent of doing a rail of cocaine...Yeah... I first read this at the following link,
(Click me!), and was quite surprised the Mr. Pope to be making that kind of statement. Due to most people who work as councellors, I doubt he would know much in regards to what either the effects of both cocaine or video games are like. I'm not saying that his opinion is invalid or that he may not have personal experience in such things, its just that when people make assumptions without any hands on insight that makes me frustrated. Considering that a thing like that is posted in a newspaper that could be viewed by thousands of adults, there's bound to be some parents taking his words and not giving a second thought as to what actual effects it can have on their kids or themselves. Is it not fair to say that most action movies are exactly the same? Not all video games are the same as the more action intensive ones and who is to say that it can warp the minds of perfectly healthy kids? Now I can definitely say that there is such thing as video game addiction,( I think myself to be an example of such an affliction) but giving a statement like that like its an absolute is potentially damaging to a viable source of entertainment and possible skill development. Its unfortunate there are more and more things about video games that are posted that are negative and less that are more positive.