Day: June 28, 2023

Gambling involves betting something of value on an event that is determined at least in part by chance. Some people use gambling to relieve boredom or to socialize with friends, but others develop an addiction that results in a great deal of personal distress. In the past, psychiatry regarded pathological gambling as more of a compulsion than an actual addiction, but in the latest edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association moved it to the addictions chapter alongside other impulse control disorders such […]