Gambling is an underrecognized problem from both a clinical and a public health point of view. It is not uncommon for an adolescent or adult to participate in one form of gambling or another on a regular basis, be it the lottery, card playing for money, sports wagering, or gambling on electronic gaming devices. Nor is it uncommon for such participation to reach excessive or destructive proportions, with negative effects on the individual s psychological, social, economic, and family life. The results of the National Research Council s 2000 review of empirical studies suggest that 85% of...
Gambling is an underrecognized problem from both a clinical and a public health point of view. It is not uncommon for an adolescent or adult to par...
Gambling is an underrecognized problem from both a clinical and a public health point of view. It is not uncommon for an adolescent or adult to participate in one form of gambling or another on a regular basis, be it the lottery, card playing for money, sports wagering, or gambling on electronic gaming devices. Nor is it uncommon for such participation to reach excessive or destructive proportions, with negative effects on the individual s psychological, social, economic, and family life. The results of the National Research Council s 2000 review of empirical studies suggest that 85% of...
Gambling is an underrecognized problem from both a clinical and a public health point of view. It is not uncommon for an adolescent or adult to par...
This book documents the history of ideas about problem gambling and its link to addictive disorders. The book uses a combination of literature review and conceptual and linguistic analysis to explore the way ideas about problem gambling gave changed over time. It examines the religious, socio-cultural, and medical influences on the development of the concept of problem gambling as a disease, along with the ways in which such ideas were influenced by attitudes about substance abuse. The history of mental illness, notably as it pertains to themes such as loss of control over behavior, is also...
This book documents the history of ideas about problem gambling and its link to addictive disorders. The book uses a combination of literature review ...
This book documents the history of ideas about problem gambling and its link to addictive disorders. The book uses a combination of literature review and conceptual and linguistic analysis to explore the way ideas about problem gambling gave changed over time. It examines the religious, socio-cultural, and medical influences on the development of the concept of problem gambling as a disease, along with the ways in which such ideas were influenced by attitudes about substance abuse. The history of mental illness, notably as it pertains to themes such as loss of control over behavior, is also...
This book documents the history of ideas about problem gambling and its link to addictive disorders. The book uses a combination of literature review ...
