Gambling Addiction

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Also known as:  Pathological Gambling

 

Description

Gambling Addiction is a disorder of impulse control, the essential features of which are a chronic and progressive failure to resist impulses to gamble and gambling behaviour that compromises or disrupts the gambler's life.

 

These Substances may be Useful for the Treatment of Gambling Addiction

Amino Acids

 N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC) may be useful for persons with Gambling Addiction.  [1]

 

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