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Gambling, Pathological Summary
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Gambling, Pathological Uncontrollable impulse to gamble, regardless of the problems caused in daily life. Pathological gambling, a pattern of repeated gambling and preoccupation with gambling, often begins in adolescence in males, and somewhat later in...
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Gambling as an Addiction Summary
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Human beings have indulged in games of chance since before recorded history. Archeological sites in both the Old World and the New World yield gambling bones, dice, and counters. The Old and New Testaments mention the casting of lots to determine the...
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Gambling Addiction: Epidemiology Summary
2,246 words, approx. 8 pages
GAMBLING is a form of risk taking that may be defined as risking (betting or wagering) something of monetary value on the unknown outcome of a future event in order to gain something else of monetary value. Evidence of gambling has been found in early...
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Gambling Addiction: Assessment Summary
2,021 words, approx. 7 pages
With the legalization and spread of gambling across North America over the last twenty years of the twentieth century, problem gambling emerged from out of the shadows into the mainstream of serious personal and social problems. In the United States,...


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The Journal of Social Psychology
The impact of gambling opportunities on compulsive gambling.
02/01/1999: 727 words, approx. 2 pages
A study conducted to determine the impact of gambling opportunities to the increase in the incidence of compulsive gambling in Louisiana revealed that the increasing rate of compulsive gambling in the said state could be blamed to the presence of video-poker gambling machines all...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
The Extent Of Compulsive Gambling
03/29/1999: 604 words, approx. 2 pages
TERESA MCALEAVY The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-29-1999 THE EXTENT OF COMPULSIVE GAMBLING By TERESA MCALEAVY Date: 03-29-1999, Monday Section: LIFESTYLE Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star Column: COPING The first sweeping study on gambling since...
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AP News
House bill would allow Internet gambling
4/26/2007: 269 words, approx. 1 pages
The ban on Internet gambling enacted last fall would be overturned under legislation proposed Thursday by a senior House Democrat, but the bill faces long odds in Congress.Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the law preventing the use of...
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Expert: Media May Encourage Illegal Gambling
1/11/2008: 1,000 words, approx. 3 pages
BRADLEY BEACH, NJ – The media may play a role in the billion-dollar illegal sports betting industry, according an expert in compulsive gambling.“You can only place a legal bet on sports in the state of Nevada,” former compulsive gambler turned addiction advocate Arnie Wexler said. ...
 


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Gambling - An Addiction?
833 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses the effects of gambling and examines how critical an addictive situation can be. Provides statistical data on addiction. Explores socially acceptable gambing opportunities.


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