Science Daily
Brains of gambling addicts: High stakes, high risk, and a bad bet
Science Daily
Gambling addiction is a mental disorder characterized by excessive risk-taking despite negative results. Scientific studies using functional MRI -- fMRI, a method of looking at active areas of the brain -- have previously shown that addicts have ...
Why gamblers can't help upping the stakes: Addicts have a poor ability to adapt to high risk situationsDaily Mail

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Economic Times
High stakes, high risk: Gambling addicts have poor ability to assess situations
Economic Times
WASHINGTON: Gambling addicts, beware! A new study suggests that gambling addicts have a poor ability to assess and adapt to high risk situations. The study was published in journal 'Translational Psychiatry'. Gambling addiction is a mental disorder ...
Gamblers have a poor ability to adapt to risky situations | Daily Mail ...Daily Mail

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EurekAlert (press release)
High stakes, high risk, and a bad bet | EurekAlert! Science News
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Gambling addiction is a mental disorder characterized by excessive risk-taking despite negative results. Scientific studies using functional MRI have previously ...

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Gambling addiction rises sharply due to economic plight: data
Yonhap News
The number of people diagnosed with a gambling addiction has increased sharply in recent years, official data showed Thursday, as the protracted economic ...

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NBC4 Washington
Gambling Addicts Find Voluntary Maryland Casino Ban Unhelpful
NBC4 Washington
A program through which people voluntarily ban themselves from Maryland's six casino is being criticized as toothless and unhelpful by local gambling addicts. About 1,400 people have enrolled in the program, which was required under the state law ...

The Japan Times
Japan weighs measures against gambling addiction before casinos debut
The Japan Times
As Japan prepares for its first Las Vegas-style casino resorts, the government is considering restrictions on existing gambling establishments, including pachinko parlors and race tracks, in a bid to tackle addiction. The legalization of casinos in ...

Charleston Post Courier
Gambling addiction treatment costs likely to rise if casinos are ...
Charleston Post Courier
As South Carolina lawmakers continue to float the idea of legalizing casinos to help raise state revenue, they are likely to be confronted with another issue: ...

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Limerick Leader
Limerick addiction: 'Gambling took everything from me – and nearly took my life'
Limerick Leader
I was missing family, having no money for food, making up numerous lies, deceit, everything. I've often said it - I'd much rather be an alcoholic or a drug addict, because there's only so much you can drink, or your body can take. Whereas with gambling ...

Thrillist
Netflix's New Poker Movie Is Like 'Drinking Buddies' Meets 'Rounders'
Thrillist
The director and star share a co-writing credit on Win it All, which tells the story of Eddie, a gambling addict struggling to get his life together. Eddie is a familiar Chicago type: big smile, messy beard, gold necklace, crew-neck sweatshirt. He ...
Netflix's 'Win It All' Is Joe Swanberg's Most Complete Film To Date ...Decider
Win It All ReviewWe Got This Covered

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Cornwall Live
Saltash care boss and £1,000-a-month gambling addict Sharon ...
Cornwall Live
A care home boss who conned an elderly resident out of £9000 to feed her £1000-a-month gambling addiction has narrowly avoided a prison sentence. Sharon ...

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Belfast Telegraph
Gambling addict jailed for paying lenders with six fraudulent ...
Belfast Telegraph
A "mean-spirited" man who gave cheques he knew couldn't be cashed to two people he owed money to has been jailed. Michael Desmond Smyth (36) admitted ...

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Belfast Live
Downpatrick gambler bounced cheques worth £11,000 which he ...
Belfast Live
A man was branded "mean-spirited" and jailed after he bounced cheques worth more than £11,000 which he made out to two people he owed money to.

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ABC Local
Why gambling addiction should be treated as a public health issue ...
ABC Local
Do you think gambling addictions should be treated as a health issue? About 100000 to 150000 Australians have a serious addiction to gambling.

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Belfast Newsletter
Gambling addict handed over cheques for £11000 he knew couldn't be cashed
Belfast Newsletter
During sentencing, the court heard that “every penny” obtained by Smyth was used to fund his gambling addiction. It also emerged that Smyth felt a “sense of satisfaction” when he was borrowing money, knowing he couldn't pay it back. Smyth handed over a ...

Brain disorder cause of gambling addiction, study shows
The Japan Times
The group, led by Hidehiko Takahashi, associate professor at Kyoto University, found that gambling addicts showed reduced activity in the frontal lobe. The findings are expected to help in the development of a novel treatment for problem gambling.

Office of Substance Abuse Services, Education Department hope to prevent teen gambling addiction
WatertownDailyTimes.com
In 2014, the National Council on Problem Gambling estimated that 2.2 percent of American adults were affected by gambling addiction. State data reported that half of seventh- through 12th-graders in New York had gambled at least once in that previous year.

Office of Substance Abuse Services, Education Department hope to prevent teen gambling addiction
WatertownDailyTimes.com
In 2014, the National Council on Problem Gambling estimated that 2.2 percent of American adults were affected by gambling addiction. State data reported that half of seventh- through twelfth-graders in New York had gambled at least once in that ...

The North Bay Nugget
Don't feed province's gambling addiction
The North Bay Nugget
However, what happens when your government begins to manipulate the law for its own benefit and thus becomes what it tries to protect us from becoming - addicts, more preciously gambling addicts? Is it even possible for an organization to become an ...

No More Gambling
Hartford Courant
It has been clearly demonstrated that casinos spread gambling addiction, debt, bankruptcies, broken families and crime. Nor does gambling deliver on the promise of jobs, for a great many of these are low-paid, part-time positions which do little to ...

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WalesOnline
Used car salesman conned garage out of thousands to fund gambling addiction
WalesOnline
A used car salesman conned his employer out of thousands of pounds and stole a luxury car to fund his gambling habit, a court heard. Robert McNamara, who worked as a general sales manager for Griffin Mill Garages, based in Pontypridd, pleaded guilty to ...