Pathological gambling has become a problem of modern society over the years, which tells of a fairly hidden addiction that can endanger players who lose control over their bets. It is defined as ...

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has dismissed a $1.2-million lawsuit from a woman who alleged her doctor put her on medication ...

Concerning crime and GD among young adults, Mestre-Bach et al. (2021) found that 36.0% of their sample of 808 young adults (ages 18-30 years) with gambling disorder had committed some form of a ...

Gambling is on the rise, and gambling disorder is now recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). The condition is viewed as similar to ...

The worldwide rise of online gambling poses a significant public health threat, according to a report released Thursday. The report, which was published in the Lancet Public Health journal, found ...

Like any addiction, gambling addiction boils down to faulty wiring: Those with a gambling disorder have less activity in the brain’s reward hub, which can push behavior to uncharacteristic extremes.

When I first started treating people for gambling disorder in 2019, my clients were usually older and gambled in casinos, with slot machines and card games among their favorite forms of gambling.

Interestingly, pathological gambling was not lumped in with substance use disorders, although they share the same behavioral characteristics, because there was no physically addictive component. The ...