If your universities, if your system of higher education migrates toward applied knowledge, away from the production ofbasicknowledge, it may therefore hurt your overall economy in terms of its capacity to generate the people and the talent you need for broad based problem solving and innovation regardless of its specific applications.
If the main aim of practitioners is to ensure the health of their patients, then an awareness of behavioural addiction and the issues surrounding it should be an important part ofbasicknowledge and training.