Thursday, March 02, 2006

Research continues to indicate that people can become addicted to gambling, or high risk situations, in the same way that they become hooked on drug and the brain releases dopamine that is a neurotransmitter that produces euphoria when the element of risk is involved. As with drug addiction, people gamble to elevate dopamine levels and with gambling they can be addicted to alcohol or smoking also. The symptoms of gambling are such as there is a continuous need to gamble and this costs money where this often leads to stealing and the patient gets social problems as a result. Read further...