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Addictions
Published in Cathy Laver-Bradbury, Margaret J.J. Thompson, Christopher Gale, Christine M. Hooper, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2021
The main characteristic of gambling addiction or ‘pathological gambling’ is frequent and repeated episodes of gambling that ‘dominate the patient’s life to the detriment of social, occupational, material, and family values and commitments’ (WHO, 2018). It aligns with the pattern seen in other addictions, such as escalating behaviour despite negative consequences, preoccupation with gambling and increasing time devoted to it. Gambling disorder has only recently been classified as an addiction, rather than an impulse control disorder.
Sugar and Fat Addiction
Published in Joan Ifland, Marianne T. Marcus, Harry G. Preuss, Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery, 2017
Kristen Criscitelli, Nicole M. Avena
Currently, food addiction is not recognized as a clinical diagnosis within the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5); however, it is often measured in the literature with the psychometrically validated Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS). Initially, this tool was based on the substance disorder criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition, Text Revision as translated to the overconsumption of highly palatable foods. In order to meet the criteria for food addiction, three or more of the seven DSM-IV-TR substance-use disorder (SUD) criteria and evidence of clinically significant impairment must be met. In the DSM 5, significant changes were made to the diagnostic criteria for SUDs and addictive disorders. Substance dependence and abuse categories were collapsed into a single category of “substance related and addictive disorders.” This category is divided into “substance related disorders” and “non-substance related disorders.” Gambling addiction is the only behavioral, non–substance-related disorder added (APA, 2013).
Addictions and dependencies: their association with offending
Published in John C. Gunn, Pamela J. Taylor, Forensic Psychiatry, 2014
Pamela J Taylor, Mary McMurran, Adrian Feeney, Ilana Crome, Roger Bloor, John Gunn, Pamela J Taylor, John Gunn, John Hamilton, Andrew Johns, Michael D Kopelman, Anthony Maden, John Strang, Pamela J Taylor
A more recent review of the clinical features of pathological gambling emphasises DSM criteria for pathological gambling and draws attention to the similarities between gambling addiction and other forms of addiction, including the notion of withdrawal symptoms (Lesieur and Rosenthal, 1991). The losing phase or what gamblers call ‘chasing’ (trying to get money back that was lost gambling), to the extent that this becomes an obsession, is, however, unique to gambling. They also draw attention to the possibility of multiple addictions and to the misery and problems suffered by relatives, especially the wives of male gamblers, and their children. A wide range of criminal behaviour has been detected among such gamblers, from forgery and embezzlement to armed robbery and fencing stolen goods. The review includes some of the psychoanalytic literature, which begins with Freud’s (1928) essay on Dostoevsky, a man who wrote not only perceptively about the problem from his own first hand experience but also often to a deadline in order to pay off his gambling debts (e.g. his 1867 novel, The Gambler).
Smartphone Addiction and Quality of Sleep among Indian Medical Students
Published in Psychiatry, 2021
Surobhi Chatterjee, Sujita Kumar Kar
According to the latest version of the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5), gambling addiction (behavioral addiction) has been categorized as a “substance-related and addictive disorder” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Smartphone addiction also shares several common characteristics to DSM-5 substance-related disorder criteria, including the four major factors: compulsive behavior, impairment of function, withdrawal, and tolerance(American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The nonproductive overuse of smartphones (Problematic Smartphone Use), along with excessive dependence and tolerance, often described as smartphone addiction, is among the most prevalent forms of addictions in younger generations (Soni et al., 2017).
Raising Awareness of Problem Gambling with Child Welfare Workers
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2019
Blake Beecher, Kim L. Stansbury
Approximately 1% of the industrialized world’s population meets criteria for gambling disorder, with an additional 1–4% meeting significant but sub-diagnostic levels of problem gambling (Weinstock & Rash, 2014). In 2012, 2.2% of adults in the United States reported a past year prevalence rate of problem gambling (Williams, Volberg, & Stevens, 2012). Methodological limitations such as sample size, instrumentation, and the year the survey was conducted makes it is hard to approximate a true estimate of gambling addiction (Storer, Abbott, & Stubbs, 2009). Nevertheless, individuals who experience gambling addiction can have a negative impact on their partners, children, family members, employers, and the broader community (Downs & Woolrych, 2010).
Exploring the public’s perception of gambling addiction on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic: Topic modelling and sentiment analysis
Published in Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2021
Emanuele Fino, Bishoy Hanna-Khalil, Mark D. Griffiths
Gambling addiction is viewed as being at the extreme end on a continuous scale of disordered gambling behaviors, resulting in detrimental psychosocial, mental, and financial consequences.17–20 The past decade has seen a proliferation in various forms of online gambling due to the diffusion of computers and mobile devices.21 These provide users with accessible, immersive gambling interfaces, and for these reasons it has been hypothesized that online gambling may be comparatively more addictive than offline gambling.22–25