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Mental Health Professionals Want Gambling Addiction Listed in DSM-V
Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Addiction Intervention.
Gambling addiction may soon be listed as a "behavioral addiction" in the upcoming edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health (DSM), the reference guide mental health professionals use to describe and diagnose mental illnesses, addictions, and diseases. The American Psychiatric Association is proposing the changes.
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Gambling Intervention
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Addiction Intervention.
When gambling has progressed from purely social to problem gambling and on to pathological or compulsive gambling, there’s only one thing certain: the individual has a gambling addiction and needs help in order to overcome it. Addiction to gambling is similar in many respects to any other type of addiction – to alcohol, illicit drugs [...]