This woman is a helpless junkie (Picture Getty)

Playing Candy Crush Saga can be as bad for you as sticking a needle full of heroin into your arm, an expert has warned.

Game addiction is so terrible that there’s a clinic, the Centre for Compulsive and Addictive Behaviours, where 100 patients are treated for ‘digital addictions’ such as playing games and watching porn.

Psychotherapy author Lucy Beresford told the Daily Mirror: ‘Compulsive gaming, watching porn and shopping can be akin to drinking, drug-taking or gambling.

At the clinic, 39 people are being treated for addiction to watching porn.

Director of the NHS group Patient, Roger Goss said, ‘’If people watch a bit of porn from time to time, then so what?’