Fighting addictions with medicine – An Australian neurology professor claims his world first program can cure problem drinkers, smokers and gamblers, and even those addicted to food.

 

Gambling addiction—working to understand

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By the late 1990s, she had moved to Las Vegas to conduct research on compulsive gamblers, talking to a vast number of addicts and industry executives, and even working in a gambling-addiction treatment program. The phenomenon Schull wound up …
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Floyd Mayweather's Million Bet: Is It a Sign of a Gambling Addiction?

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Could all of this betting be a sign of an addiction? Gambling addiction is a progressive disease that comes in three phases, according to addiction treatment centers such as the Phoenix Center. The first stage is called the winning phase. In this phase …
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Gambling is making Kenyan addicts poor

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It unravelled what thousands of Kenyans are silently going through — the plague of gambling, “an addiction that is worse than being hooked on drugs”. As I read the story, it reminded me of a friend, Mrefu, a reformed gambler. He drained a whole …
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