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Finding Time For Poker

We hear lots of stories about poker and gambling addiction, but in this fast-paced society, what we hear much less of is the epidemic that we might call “no time for a poker moment” – you know exactly what I’m talking about! Those of us who are full time professionals, with the responsibilities of home [...]

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Posted on April 30, 2007 by gaunilo | Filed Under Addiction, Culture, Poker
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How Creepy-Crawly Legs Can Cause Gambling Addiction

I previously wrote about the interesting phenomenom of pathological gambling developing in Parkinsons patients who were taking medications called dopamine agonists, which increase dopamine in certain places in your brain. A study in the journal Neurology now finds that when these medications are used by people with Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS), the same pathological gambling can develop, even when lower [...]

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Posted on April 11, 2007 by sparky | Filed Under Addiction, Poker
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Casino opens – will GA meetings be more crowded?

Interesting study about what’s happens to rates of gambling and problem gambling when a new casino opens. Jacques and Lanouceur of Laval University in Quebec looked at the rates of gambling and problem gambling in a small town of 800 in Quebec which opened a casino, compared to another small town without a casino. Not [...]

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Posted on February 14, 2007 by sparky | Filed Under Addiction, Culture, Poker
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My BRAIN Made Me Do It!

Remember those TV commercials that tried to sway you away from taking drugs… ”This is your brain; this is your brain on drugs” – and you saw the frying egg. Message = Your brain is messed up when you’re taking drugs. Well, your brain also functions differently if you’re a gambling addict. Researchers came up with tests [...]

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Posted on January 9, 2007 by sparky | Filed Under Addiction, Poker
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Ever LIE About Your Poker Playing??

Here’s a single question to see if you have problematic gambling or a gambling disorder… Ready? Answer honestly, ok? Remember, you’re online… anonymous…. not trying to calm down your partner about all those hours you’ve been gambling… So be truthful… Question: Have you lied to famliy members about your gambling?? [...]

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Posted on November 16, 2006 by sparky | Filed Under Addiction, Culture, Poker
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Is Your Gambling Actually Due to the New Medication You’re Taking??

Do you have Parkinson’s Disease? Do you have Restless Leg Syndrome? If so, then maybe it’s your medication that’s making you gamble so much (rather than your pathetic lack of willpower, etc. A doctor at the Mayo Clinic who treats patients with Parkinson’s began to notice that some of her patients were reporting that they’d suddenly developed [...]

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Posted on September 25, 2006 by sparky | Filed Under Addiction, Culture, Poker
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Should Poker Sites Have an Addiction Warning???

WOW! I was surprised by some statistics in a recent medical journal article, “Internet Gambling: an Emerging Concern in Family Practice Medicine.” (And sort of surprised that internet gambling has hit the mainstream of academic medicine so soon… but maybe I’m just behind of how big a problem internet gambling addiction is!) Here’s what they [...]

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Posted on August 10, 2006 by sparky | Filed Under Addiction, Culture, Poker
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