Showing posts with label compulsive gambling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compulsive gambling. Show all posts
Monday, March 4, 2013

Addiction Machines: How Slots are Designed for Compulsive Play

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Your player card, please. The image of the compulsive gambler has traditionally been the male poker player, drink in hand, recklessly b...
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Friday, February 8, 2013

How I Quit Gambling

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Projectile vomiting can be your friend. I never should have found myself inside casinos in the first place. As a former alcoholic, ciga...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Is Gambling the Opiate of the Masses?

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  Two new books tackle gambling’s addictive mysteries. Charles Fey, the American who invented the three-reel slot machine in 1898, is a w...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

That Pesky Gambling Question

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The DSM-V is set to label problem gambling an addiction. Nobody has ever bet enough on the winning horse. — Unknown wise person I use...
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Friday, June 4, 2010

Gambling and Parkinson’s Disease

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An addendum to the previous post. Today, a group of Australians taking medications for Parkinson's Disease have filed a class action ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Triple Play for Addicts

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Why cigarettes, alcohol and gambling are such a perfect fit. The newer views of addiction as an organic brain disorder cast strong doubt ...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

Gambling Through the Ages

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A brief history of playing cards. In a recent email exchange with NIDA director Nora Volkow, I asked about gambling as a clinical addict...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Compulsive Gambling [Guest Post]

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14 hours at the roulette wheel. [Editors Note: Addiction Inbox has not covered the so-called behavioral or non-traditional addictions--Inter...
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