Justin D Wareham1, Marc N Potenza. 1. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, 06519, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Pathological gambling (CPG) has been considered as a behavioral addiction having similarities with substance use disorders (SUDs). OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: Current conceptualizations of addiction, as well as experimental studies of PG and SUDs, are reviewed in order to provide a perspective on tbe areas of convergence between addictive behaviors in PG and SUDs. RESULTS: Shared features exist in diagnostic, clinical, physiological, and behavioral domains. CONCLUSIONS AND SCIELLTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: Similarities between PG and SUDs have important implicatiol1s for categorizing, assessing, preventing and treating both PO and SUDs.
BACKGROUND: Pathological gambling (CPG) has been considered as a behavioral addiction having similarities with substance use disorders (SUDs). OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: Current conceptualizations of addiction, as well as experimental studies of PG and SUDs, are reviewed in order to provide a perspective on tbe areas of convergence between addictive behaviors in PG and SUDs. RESULTS: Shared features exist in diagnostic, clinical, physiological, and behavioral domains. CONCLUSIONS AND SCIELLTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: Similarities between PG and SUDs have important implicatiol1s for categorizing, assessing, preventing and treating both PO and SUDs.
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