Perhaps the most sinister aspect of McKay Coppins’s well-researched story on sports gambling is the combination of addictions ...

WGAL’s In Focus examined gambling addiction in Pennsylvania, where gambling is available through casinos, sports wagering, ...

Gambling addiction represents one of the most destructive forces that can tear through family structures, creating widespread damage that often spans generations. While it may begin innocuously, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — Illinois lawmakers are working to classify compulsive gambling as a substance abuse disorder with a ...

Dar es Salaam. The Gaming Board of Tanzania (GBT) has introduced measures to temporarily restrict compulsive gamblers from betting as part of efforts to curb gambling addiction, particularly among ...

Mariya Cherkasova (left), assistant professor of psychology at WVU, and graduate student Polina Krom test a slot machine simulator to study how users enter the “zone” and lose touch with the outside ...

Gambling dominates sports now to the extent that a recent Washington Post analysis of 50 hours of televised professional and college hockey, football and basketball games found that “a gambling ...

Arriving at a 1987 Gamblers Anonymous event in Dallas, Chris Anderson was at a low point. After years of losing money on high-risk stock option trades, his mental health had deteriorated and he had ...

Louisiana is the 5th most gambling addicted state in the U.S., with about 200,000 residents reporting problem gambling. Why ...

Two medicines usually given to people who are addicted to opioid drugs also help with compulsive gambling. The finding suggests there may be similar brain circuits involved in behavioural addictions ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Wall Street banker who said he lost $3 million from compulsive gambling caused by a popular drug used to treat Parkinson's disease is suing companies involved with the ...