1. Nat' Academies Press, Pathological Gambling: A Critical Review (1999) Complete browsable text of this publication by the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. http://www.nap.edu/books/0309065712/html/

Read more than 3,000 books online FREE! More than 900 PDFs now available for sale HOME ABOUT NAP CONTACT NAP HELP ... ORDERING INFO Items in cart [0] TRY OUR SPECIAL DISCOVERY ENGINE Questions? Call 888-624-8373 Pathological Gambling: A Critical Review (1999) Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education ( CBASSE Find More Like This Book Research ... Dashboard NEW! BUY This Book CHAPTER SELECTOR: Openbook Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-xii Executive Summary, pp. 1-6 1: Introduction, pp. 7-14 2: Gambling Concepts and Nomenclature, pp. 15-62 3: Pathological and Problem Gamblers in the United States, pp. 63-106 4: Research on the Origins of Pathological and Problem Gambl..., pp. 107-155 5: Social and Economic Effects, pp. 156-191 6: Treatment for Pathological Gamblers, pp. 192-236 7: Organization and Technology of Gambling, pp. 237-268 Appendix A: Gamblers Anonymous Twenty Questions, pp. 269-272 Appendix B: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diso..., pp. 273-282 Appendix C: Legal-Age Gambling Opportunities and Restriction..., pp. 283-312

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The National Council on Problem Gambling 216 G Street NE, Suite 200 Washington, D.C. 20002 1-202-547-9204 - Fax 1-202-547-9206 E-mail: ncpg@ncpgambling.org Problem gambling is gambling behavior which causes disruptions in any major area of life: psychological, physical, social or vocational. The term "Problem Gambling" includes, but is not limited to, the condition known as "Pathological", or "Compulsive" Gambling, a progressive addiction characterized by increasing preoccupation with gambling, a need to bet more money more frequently, restlessness or irritability when attempting to stop, "chasing" losses, and loss of control manifested by continuation of the gambling behavior in spite of mounting, serious, negative consequences. The Mission of the National Council on Problem Gambling is to increase public awareness of pathological gambling, ensure the widespread availability of treatment for problem gamblers and their families, and to encourage research and programs for prevention and education.

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Pathological gambling: An addiction embracing the nation G amblers no longer need to trek to Las Vegas or Atlantic City to find the action they crave. It is available today in their own hometowns. Legalized gambling is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States. Gambling's tremendous popularity is evident in the recent increase in the number of off-track-betting parlors (OTBs) and riverboat casinos that dot the Midwest and the Mississippi Delta. Billboards on major highways depict the action and excitement available at such facilities. For most of the industry's patrons, gambling is fun and a form of harmless entertainment. For the four to six percent of gamblers who become problem or pathological (compulsive) gamblers, however, it can be a devastating illness that negatively affects every aspect of their lives. What is the difference between casual social gambling and pathological gambling? Gambling can be defined as playing a game of chance for stakes. Gambling occurs in many forms, most commonly pari-mutuels (horse and dog tracks, off-track-betting parlors, Jai Alai), lotteries, casinos (slot machines, table games), bookmaking (sports books and horse books), card rooms, bingo and the stock market. Pathological gambling is a progressive disease that devastates not only the gambler but everyone with whom he or she has a significant relationship. In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association accepted pathological gambling as a "disorder of impulse control." It is an illness that is chronic and progressive, but it can be diagnosed and treated.

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Gambling Addiction Questions and Answers Is pathological gambling similar to chemical dependency? Yes and no. Similarities between pathological gambling and chemical dependency include an inability to stop/control the addiction, denial, severe depression, and mood swings. Pathological gambling and chemical dependency are both progressive diseases with similar phases. These include "chasing" the first win/high, experiencing blackouts and using the object of addiction to escape pain. Both pathological gamblers and persons addicted to alcohol or drugs are preoccupied with their addiction, experience low self-esteem, use rituals, and seek immediate gratification. How are children affected by pathological gambling? Children may be affected in several ways. They may be physically and/or emotionally abandoned by their parents, who are unable to provide their children with needed attention and nurturing because of the time spent gambling. "Casino kids" have been left by themselves at the outer rim of casinos while their parents gamble, according to some casino security officers. In some extreme cases, children are left in the family car in the casino parking lot for hours at a time while their parents gamble inside. Less obviously, children may also spend several hours each week with babysitters while their parents gamble in casinos, bingo halls or card rooms. All of these scenarios may lead a child to feel physically and emotionally abandoned. In addition, the dysfunction that pathological gambling creates in a home often includes spouse and child abuse. Children are abused verbally, mentally and physically by the gambler, and often even more so by the co-dependent spouse. This devastating abuse frequently goes unnoticed or is denied by others as the child suffers in silence.

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9. CNN - Study Urges More Funding For 'pathological Gambling' Research - March 18, CNN http://www.cnn.com/US/9903/18/gambling/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD ASIANOW U.S. ... news quiz CNN WEB SITES: TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW MORE SERVICES: video on demand video archive audio on demand news email services ... pagenet DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback SITE GUIDES: help contents search FASTER ACCESS: europe japan WEB SERVICES: Study urges more funding for 'pathological gambling' research March 18, 1999 Web posted at: 12:18 a.m. EST (0518 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) In any year, 1.8 million adults in the United States can be classified as "pathological gamblers" unable "to resist impulses to gamble," according to a new study by the National Research Council. The study, to be presented to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission on Thursday around 3:30 p.m. EST, says the problem is "significant enough" to warrant funding for more comprehensive research than currently exists. "More people are gambling, and they are waging more," the study says. More than 80 percent of American adults have gambled in some form in their lifetime. Gambling of some type is legal in all but three states. Computer technology has increased the accessibility of gambling. The study calls for an assessment of the costs and benefits of gambling, noting that there are "net economic benefits for economically depressed communities."

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12. Nat'l Academies Press: Pathological Gambling: A Critical Review Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of pathological gambling, pathological gambling explores America s experience of gambling, examining http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6329.html

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13. The WAGER Harvard Medical School weekly publication presenting the latest research on pathological gambling. http://www.basisonline.org/wager/

BASIS Online The WAGER The Worldwide Addiction Gambling Education Report Click here to read current issue. Welcome to The WAGER , a research bulletin dedicated to issues relating to gambling and gambling related disorders. Longtime readers might recall that The WAGER originally stood for The WEEKLY ADDICTION GAMBLING EDUCATION REPORT. Now in its 10th year of continuous publication, and reaching almost 20 countries around the world, The WAGER is changing its name to The WORLDWIDE ADDICTION GAMBLING EDUCATION REPORT. Although advances in information technology have greatly increased the quantity and accessibility of gambling-related resources, the majority of research materials remains cloistered in university libraries and laboratories. Since its inception, the mission of The WAGER has been to gather, distill, and share these resources, providing readers with direct access to the latest information on pathological gambling. The field of gambling studies is the domain of no single discipline. Disordered gambling cannot be understood without a discourse that includes genetics, history, anthropology, and other fields that are too often considered peripheral to the addiction sciences. We sincerely hope that in some manner, however indirectly

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15. Harvard Medical School Division On Addictions - The Institute For Research On Pa Institute for Research on pathological gambling and Related Disorders caused by pathological gambling through support of rigorous scientific research. http://www.hms.harvard.edu/doa/institute/

Site Contents: Home About Us What's New Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders ... Opportunities Search: Division on Addictions Harvard Medical School The Landmark Center 401 Park Drive, 2nd Floor East Boston, MA 02215 Phone: (617) 384-9030 Fax: (617) 384-9023 Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders Institute Home Research Programs Who's Who Annual Conference The Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders was established in 2000 as a program of Harvard Medical School's Division on Addictions. Our mission is to alleviate the individual, social, medical and economic burdens caused by pathological gambling through support of rigorous scientific research. Advancing understanding of pathological gambling and related psychiatric disorders, such as substance abuse, will lead to improved methods of diagnosis, intervention, treatment and prevention. Modeled on the National Institutes of Health, the Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders supports both internal core gambling research and competitively funded external research at educational, medical, and research institutions worldwide. The Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders is supported by the National Center for Responsible Gaming (visit NCRG's web site: www.ncrg.org

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Site Contents: Home About Us What's New Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders ... Opportunities Search: Division on Addictions Harvard Medical School The Landmark Center 401 Park Drive, 2nd Floor East Boston, MA 02215 Phone: (617) 384-9030 Fax: (617) 384-9023 Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders Research Programs Institute Home Research Programs Who's Who Annual Conference ... Click here for more information on Extramural Research Philosophy The study of pathological gambling is essential to the understanding of addiction and dependence. Pathological gambling shares many features with other addictive disorders, and recent research suggests a strong link among these activities. Although most people gamble without difficulty, the prevalence of gambling disorders is similar to the rate and nature of some drug use disorders. Like drug abusers, pathological gamblers persist in gambling despite great financial harm and destruction of personal relationships. Pathological gamblers also experience high levels of concurrent or related psychiatric disorders. In addition to depression, manic behavior and personality problems, pathological gambling is often co-morbid with cigarette smoking, alcohol and other drug abuse. Current clinical knowledge about addiction, in general, and substance dependence, in particular, rests upon research conducted with people who repeatedly experience potent emotional states before, during and occasionally after they ingest psychoactive substances. Such investigations inadvertently have confounded the influence of substance ingestion with repetitive behaviors and the associated emotional experiences. Research funded by the Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders will seek to explore and understand the relationships among substance abuse, pathological gambling and other related psychiatric disorders.

18. San Diego Center For Pathological Gambling, Gambling Addiction, Compulsive Gambl Diagnostic evaluation and outpatient services to pathological gamblers and their families. http://www.sandiego-rx4gambling.com

Do you have a gambling problem? To find out, answer these questions with a simple" yes" or "no." Do you use gambling as a way to escape problems or relieve depression? Do you feel unable to stop playing regardless of winning or losing? Are you betting more than you intended? Have you neglected family or work responsibilities because of gamblimg? Do you feel restless or irritable when attempting to cut down or stop gambling? Have you lost or jeopardized important relationships due to gambling? Have you borrowed money from others to relieve a financial problem that arose due to gambling? If you answered "yes" to one or more of the above, you are probably in trouble with gambling. Pathological gambling is a progressively chronic disorder that results in an uncontrollable impulse to gamble. It has the highest suicide rate of all psychiatric disorders. Psychologically similar to alcohol and substance addictions, compulsive gambling affects the entire family. It is, however, a diagnosable and treatable condition. The San Diego Center for Pathological Gambling was established in 2003 by Dr.

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20. Pathologic Gambling - February 1, 2000 - American Academy Of Family Physicians Review of research on pathological gambling. Psychol Rep 1993;72(3 pt 1)791810. Cognitive and behavioral treatment of pathological gambling a http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000201/741.html

Advanced Search AAFP Home Page Journals Vol. 61/No. 3 (February 1, 2000) Pathologic Gambling BRIAN K. UNWIN, MAJ, MC, USA Darnall Army Community Hospital, Fort Hood, Texas MARK K. DAVIS, LTC, MS, USA Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia JASON B. DE LEEUW, CPT, MS, USA Community Mental Health Service, Fort Meade, Maryland A patient information handout on gambling, written by the authors of this article, is provided on page 749. Pathologic gambling and problem gambling affect approximately 5 to 15 million Americans and are common in young people. The community-minded family physician is in a good position to identify and assist patients who have gambling-related problems and thereby prevent or treat the resultant personal, family and social disruptions. Provider and community education about the depth and breadth of this condition is crucial for the identification and treatment of a growing problem. As with many psychologic conditions, identification of the disorder and treatment of the patient by the family physician comprise the primary treatment. Screening tools, treatment programs and self-help groups provide additional resources for the family physician. An illustrative case report demonstrates the importance of heightened awareness of and screening for this common condition. (Am Fam Physician 2000;61:741-9.) P athologic gambling is identified in every social class. Unfortunately, no systematic process of educating, screening and treating pathologic gamblers is currently in place. Family physicians need to have a heightened awareness about the impact of the pathologic gambler's behavior on the family and should be familiar with screening instruments and treatment options.

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