Pathological Gambling and the Psychiatric Emergency Service
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Psychiatric Comorbidity Associated With Pathological Gambling
Gambling has become a major recreational activity in the United States. Formerly confined to a few states such as Nevada and New Jersey, legal gambling opportunities have exploded across the nation in the past 2 decades. Some form of legalized gambling now exists in all but 2 states: 37 have lotteries, and 27 have casino gambling. Recent estimates indicate that 70% to 90% of North Americans hav...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674370705200812