Gambling Addiction: Assessment
With the legalization and spread of gambling across North America over the last twenty years of the twentieth century, problem gambling emerged from out of the shadows i...
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Gambling Addiction: Epidemiology
GAMBLING is a form of risk taking that may be defined as risking (betting or wagering) something of monetary value on the unknown outcome of a future event in order to...
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Gambling as an Addiction
Human beings have indulged in games of chance since before recorded history. Archeological sites in both the Old World and the New World yield gambling bones, dice, and counte...
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Gambling, Pathological
Uncontrollable impulse to gamble, regardless of the problems caused in daily life.
Pathological gambling, a pattern of repeated gambling and preoccupation with gambling, often b...
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Gambling has existed throughout most of the history of mankind. Matthew, a disciple of Christ Jesus, recorded in his book of the Bible, "and when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes amon...
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