Gambling Addiction: Assessment
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 i...
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Gambling Addiction: Epidemiology
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...
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Gambling as an Addiction
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 counte...
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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 b...
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Gambling has existed throughout most of the history of mankind. Matthew, a disciple of Christ Jesus, recorded in his book of the Bible, "and when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes amon...
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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...
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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...
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NEW YORK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Former Philadelphia Flyers
player Rick Tocchet could return to the NHL in February after a
two-year leave of absence following his role in an illegal
sports betting rin...
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The clinking sounds of coins and tokens hitting the metal trays of slot machines at Connecticut's two casinos will be gone by the end of the year.Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun are joining ...
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Researchers are looking for established means to combat an addiction to gambling, while eschewing junk science.
Christine
Reilly is the executive director
of the Institute for Research on Patholo...
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Singapore (dpa) - It doesn't exactly look like "Casino Royale,"
tucked into a far corner of a hardly glamorous shopping centre far
from Singapore's glitzy Orchard Road.
...
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Your brain is supposed to fire a "hold your horses" signal when faced with a tough choice. But a brain implant that stops the tremors of Parkinson's disease may block that signal — a new expl...
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