I’m treating guys who would never be caught dead in a casino,” James Whelan, a clinical psychologist who runs treatment ...

EstrelaBet, one of the largest Brazilian gamingtech companies, has taken another step towards making the player experience ...

The first step is to call 1402, the NAAC helpline, where any interested party can seek advice – not just for the person in trouble but also themselves, on how to handle the stress of trying to steer ...

German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin described krankhafte Kauflust — the pathological desire to ... addictions is increasingly accepted. Gambling disorder, which is in many ways similar to ...

Another movement disorder is restless legs syndrome ... In 2023, the MHRA advised there had been increased reports of pathological gambling with a drug called aripiprazole. This antipsychotic ...

The article by Tavares and Gentil represents an important contribution towards our understanding of the relationship between impulse control disorders (specifically here, pathological gambling - PG) ...

5.4% of Louisianians have the potential for problem gambling disorder and another 2.9% meet the criteria for a pathological gambling disorder. Problem gambling experts recommend a quick three-question ...

For example, anxiety, stress and depression can either be symptoms or causes of a gambling disorder. Alcohol use and abuse and substance use and abuse are also “heavily correlated or co ...

Prior to the legalization of sports betting, researchers estimated the lifetime gambling addiction prevalence rate at about 2% for “pathological ... substance use disorder is seven times ...

Growing access to the internet and smartphones and social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic are related to the expansion of the online gambling market, which increases the risk of addiction for ...

Pathological gambling is defined as the inability to resist ... said gambling addiction is formally diagnosed as gambling disorder. “An individual must meet diagnostic criteria, which can be ...

Interestingly, pathological gambling was not lumped in with substance ... The most recent version of the Diagnostic & Statistics Manual reclassified F63.0 as gambling disorder (GD), altering the ...