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

Calls for governments around the world to treat gambling as a public health issue in same way as alcohol and tobacco ...

EstrelaBet, one of the largest Brazilian gamingtechs, announces the launch of its exclusive mobile app for Android in the ...

Jeffrey Kent, 55, has a 35-year history of manipulating women into romantic relationships, then using their trust to steal ...

Court of King’s Bench Justice Melanie Hayes-Richards on Friday handed Jeff Kent, 55, an indeterminate sentence for frauds ...

Gambling disorder, which is in many ways similar to compulsive shopping, was added to the fifth edition of the DSM in 2013 and was grouped with addictions to substances.

Published: March 14, 2025 1:14pm EDT Getting a headache and feeling sick are common side-effects for many medicines. Indulging in risky sexual behaviour or pathological gambling – not so common.

EDITORIAL Impulsivity and compulsivity in pathological gambling and obsessive-compulsive disorder Impulsividade e compulsividade no jogo patológico e no transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo The article by ...

Another 5-8 million (2-3%) would be considered to have mild or moderate gambling problems. According to a 2016 Problem Gambling Prevalence Study by the Department of Health’s Office of Behavioral ...

Gambling provides a source of revenue for state governments. There was $1.08 billion in state gaming tax revenue generated across the nation for the first 10 months of 2024, says Dara Cohen ...

Risk of gambling addiction growing Arnie Wexler, a compulsive-gambling specialist, predicts that “mainstreaming” sports betting will unleash “a volcano of gambling addiction in America.” ...

Discrimination that leads to harm can affect, in different ways, vulnerable people of a different ethnicity or gender, or who are elderly, or even suffering from a mental disorder (Bar-Gill, Sunstein, ...