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Stop Gambling

by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
March 23, 2006

Problem gambling is gambling behavior which causes disruptions in any major area of life: psychological, physical, social or vocational. While it may appear that addictions are pleasure-seeking behaviors, the roots of addiction can usually be traced to a wish to suppress or avoid some kind of emotional pain. The term "addiction" used to be exclusive to chemicals such as alcohol, drugs, or nicotine. With recent research on the brain and its processes, we now understand that many behaviors can become as chemically addictive as a substance. Gambling can be such an addiction. Problem gambling includes all gambling behavior patterns that compromise, disrupt or damage personal, family or career pursuits. The essential features include increasing preoccupation with gambling a need to bet more money more frequently restlessness or irritability when attempting to stop "chasing" losses loss of control, manifested by continuation of the gambling behavior in spite of increasingly serious negative consequences in extreme cases, financial ruin, legal problems, loss of career and family, and even suicide.

Addictive gambling

According to the National Gambling Impact Commission, the national lifetime gambling population is no less than 1.2% of the total population (2.5 million). That would make it twice as prevalent as cancer among Americans. In mature gambling markets such as Nevada, more than 5% of the population will develop some problem with gambling, a prevalence rate about five times that of schizophrenia and more than twice that of cocaine addiction. Youth are more troubled and addicted than adults. There is little logic in the gambling patterns of the addict. Among the common elements relevant to all gamblers irrespective of their subgroup are association of gambling with "subjective excitement, dissociation, and increased heart rate" often described as "equivalent to a drug-induced 'high'.

Conclusion

Even if they acknowledge the reality that gambling has led them into financial problems, they irrationally believe that gambling will solve their problems subjective allure of the addiction self-feeding nature of the addictive cycle predisposition to magical solutions that are central to the addiction experience. The pace of gambling seems more important to the addict than winning or losing. The British Royal Commission stated that the temptation to bet excessive amounts of money was induced by the odds of winning and by the pace that bets were made for a particular game. Internet gamblers may be more likely to have a serious gambling problem. In a study of 389 people seeking care at a health clinic, Internet gambling was reported by 31 of the participants.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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