Mayo Clinic Gambling Addiction

by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
Oct 1, 2006
 

Mayo Clinic:

Like drug and alcohol addiction gambling addiction is now a days the most serious social problems among individuals. In US approximately 85 percent of adults having gambled at some point in their lives, and about 60 percent say they've gambled at least once in the past year.  

Mayo clinic is the world best psychological clinic which can definitely help you to overcome gambling addiction. Mayo clinic provides you both online and offline help centre for gambling addict. Mayo clinic have done various research on gambling addiction and they found out a link between dopamine agonist drugs and pathological gambling. Actually there are some chemical factors which cause compulsive gambling. Serotonin, norepinephrine (adrenaline) and dopamine are the neurotransmitters which enable nerve cells to communicate. Imbalances of these neurotransmitters in the brain may create gambling addiction.

How Mayo Clinic Help to Overcome Gambling Addiction:

You seek help of professional, if you realize that you have crossed the limit of gambling and become addicted with it. Mayo clinic is also ready to help to get rid of you from gambling addiction. You can consult with world best doctor and psychiatric in Mayo clinic who can help you to overcome from gambling addiction. Gambling addiction treatment is also similar to therapies for other forms of addiction. Mayo clinic specialist generally provides you two forms of treatment like psychotherapy and medication.

In Psychotherapy doctors identifying the unhealthy, irrational and negative beliefs of the gambler and he tries to replace the gambler with healthy and positive ones. It is called also cognitive behavior therapy. Psychotherapy may be group therapy or individual therapy. In group therapy, specialist deal with number of gamblers combined which help gambler to get advice and support from other people on how to deal with gambling addiction. If you are hesitated in group therapy you can go for personal counseling where specialist through counseling help you to get rid of addiction.  

Medication is an alterative mode of treatment of gambling. Though most of the people do not considered medication as an effective mode of treatment but it has shown some promise in curing gambling addiction.

Antidepressant medications may be effective in treating compulsive gambling. Mayo clinic physician generally prescribe fluvoxamine (Luvox), fluoxetine (Prozac, Sarafem) and citalopram (Celexa) for gambling addiction. Lithium (Eskalith, Lithobid) may be effective for pathological gamblers with mood disorders, such as bipolar disorder. Naltrexone has also potency to act as an effective treatment for gambling addiction which usually used to treat alcoholic and narcotic addiction.

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