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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsOnline Gambling Does Not Increase Addiction
By Ed Brayton
Here's a Youtube video of Howard Shaffer, director of the Division of Addiction at the Harvard School of Medicine, discussing recent research that shows that addiction to gambling has actually gone down while the availability of gambling, especially online, has skyrocketed. Video below the fold:
Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).
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