Showing posts with label gambling addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gambling addiction. 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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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...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Q & A with Nora Volkow

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NIDA director discusses cannabis, addiction vaccines, and gambling . Recently, Addiction Inbox was offered the opportunity to submit ques...
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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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Saturday, January 31, 2009

America Anonymous—Book Review

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Sex, drugs, and shoplifting. New York Times magazine contributor Benoit Denizet-Lewis interweaves eight personal stories of addiction and o...