Gambling can be a destructive addiction that ruins a person’s family and finances. Treating pathological gambling involves several layers of intervention. The person struggling with a gambling addiction must overcome powerful urges to engage in the damaging behavior. The strength of these urges accounts for a high rate of relapse. What if there was a [...]
Gambling has been around for ages and ever since the country was first started, settlers and Native Americans have been bargaining, or gambling for money, and other key items for survival. As the nation and the game have aged, the bargaining has become more intense and the potential for addiction has increased. Now instead of [...]
If things are rapidly slipping out of control as a result of your loved one’s problem gambling, it may be time for you to act now. The fact that problem gambling affects thousands of Americans and their families is small comfort when it hits right home with your own family. You already know that the [...]
Call it compulsive gambling, gambling addiction or pathological gambling, the gamut of possible consequences are the same – relationship destruction, job loss, financial devastation, crime and child neglect. Recent research says that longer rather than shorter durations of prescription-based treatment may be effective for helping people recover from gambling addictions, contradicting previous research suggesting a [...]
Parkinson disease is often treated with dopamine agonists such as apomorphine. Dopamine agonists may be the cause of other disorders reported to be prevalent among those with Parkinson disease. Individuals with Parkinson Disease have been reported to have a high rate of disordered gambling and other impulse control disorders.
Gambling addiction can wipe you out – financially, physically, emotionally, and socially. Once you reach the point of compulsive gambling, sooner or later you’ll find yourself on the down slope of this addictive pastime. Millions of Americans have come to this painful realization, while many more continue to allow gambling to control their lives. Getting [...]
Many electronic avenues for entertainment have a reputation for supposed addiction. The Internet, the Blackberry smartphone, video games, and Facebook are just a few. One entertainment electronic may be getting a reprieve, however. Electronic gaming machines, once thought to cause a gambling addiction, may only be a problem if a problem already exists.
Make no mistake about it. Overcoming a gambling addiction is tough work. If it were as simple as just walking away from the casinos, slots, sports betting, track or card games, there’d be a lot fewer problem and compulsive gamblers in the U.S. – and around the world, for that matter.
