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A psychiatric disorder.
Problem Gambling includes all gambling that compromises, disrupts or damages personal, family or vocational pursuits. The essential features are:
- Increasing preoccupation;
- A need to bet more money more frequently;
- Restlessness or irritability when attempting to stop;
- “Chasing” losses; and
- Loss of control in spite of mounting, serious, negative consequences.
In extreme cases, problem gambling can result in financial ruin, legal problems, loss of career and family, or even suicide.
Although no substance is ingested, the problem gambler gets the same effect from gambling as someone else might get from taking a tranquilizer or having a drink. Gambling alters the person’s mood. But just as tolerance develops to drugs or alcohol, the gambler finds that it takes more and more of the gambling experience to achieve the desired emotional effect. This creates increased craving for the activity and less and less ability to resist as these cravings grow in intensity and frequency.
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