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Addiction, debt and the research into both, the litigation, and treatment. Stated once and factually, with the body making each finding named.
Part of Gambling
21 moments in this segment.
- - Michael Souza - Psychology of Gambling. University lecture reviewing reward and addiction in gambling from behavioural, cognitive and neurobiological angles. Dr Michael Souza sets out what laboratory and clinical research says about how repeated play acts on the reward system, and covers the social psychology of play alongside the neuroscience.
- - Understanding Joy: The Devastation of a Gambling Addiction. Hour-long public television documentary centred on a woman named Joy and what she and those around her say gambling cost them. It sets her account against clinical commentary from the Maryland Center for Excellence on Problem Gambling on how treatment and referral work in the state.
- - Real Hustle. Full Episode - Gambling Addiction.. Alexis Conran examines compulsive gambling starting from his own estranged father, whose gambling he says ruined the family. Built as a full episode of a BBC Three series about confidence tricks, it turns the format on the mechanics of the games themselves and on what draws people back to them.
- - Meet the Man Who Has Spent $70,000 Playing a Mobile Game. A player in his thirties describes in-game purchases on the mobile role-playing game Fate/Grand Order totalling more than 70,000 dollars, and explains why he considers the spending worthwhile. The report notes the title had become the publisher's most profitable game.
- - Riding the Dragon Gambling Addiction. Documentary treatment moving between the forms gambling takes, accounts of why people keep playing, and the commercial history of Las Vegas and Macau as industry centres, including their early links to organised crime and corruption. Runs the personal and the industrial side by side rather than separating them.
- - Matthew - a gambling addiction story. Matthew Kettell speaks about the shame he carried and about coming close to suicide, and about the three-year prison sentence he served from 2008 after taking more than 300,000 pounds from his employer. He describes the treatment that followed and urges others not to wait until a crisis point before asking for help.
- - Kelly - a gambling addiction story. Kelly Field describes starting to gamble online during an extended period off work and reaching 10,000 pounds of debt within six months, borrowing more as it continued. She talks about how hard it was to raise the subject with her GP, and argues that the effect on women goes under-discussed.
- - Steve Ramsey - a gambling addiction story. Steve Ramsey, born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1966, describes himself as a compulsive gambler and accounts for the 27-month sentence he received in 2018 for defrauding his employer of close to 200,000 pounds. Speaking after release, he says that admitting it, even knowing prison would follow, was what turned things around.
- - Bright Lights: what one woman's 25-year gambling addiction really cost. Animated first-person account from a woman identified only as Sharon, who says she has been addicted to poker machines since they arrived in Australia in 1992. In her own telling she describes twenty-five years of play and what it took from her finances and her relationships.
- - BAN Loot Boxes!? Reacting to Asmongold. Walkthrough of what published research does and does not establish about randomised in-game boxes, covering the simulated gambling comparison, the correlational nature of the gateway evidence, and the policy options that had been proposed to legislators.
- - Recovered Compulsive Gambler-Dan Trolaro. Long-form filmed interview with Dan Trolaro, who describes himself as a recovered compulsive gambler. He recounts his own gambling, the debts and consequences that followed, and the route out of it, speaking directly to camera throughout.
- - Problem Gambling explained | Psychologist Zoe Falster. Clinical psychologist Zoe Falster sets out how gambling disorder is understood and treated, opening from survey figures putting Australian gambling losses above twenty-five billion dollars a year with around sixty percent of that lost on poker machines. She explains what clinicians look for and what help involves.
- - How Anticipation Primes the Brain for Problem Gambling | Carolyn Hawley | TEDxYouth@RVA. Rehabilitation counsellor Carolyn Hawley argues that uncertainty itself, rather than winning, is what holds attention, and walks through the dopamine research on anticipation. She draws examples from her own counselling career to show how habitual play develops.
- - The Silent Addiction | Patrick Chester | TEDxSpokane. Patrick Chester speaks about his own gambling, which he describes as an addiction, and what it meant for the people around him. He places his account against an estimate of more than two million people in the United States living with gambling problems, and ends on the steps he took towards recovery.
- - Investigating Australia's gambling addiction | 101 East Documentary. Reporters examine why Australians lose around twenty-five billion dollars a year to gambling and why poker machines dominate those losses. The film traces the concentration of machines in community pubs and clubs, speaking to people affected and to those who defend the venues' reliance on the revenue.
- - I Was Addicted To Gambling At 16 Years Old | The Other Side | Channel 4 Documentaries. Lewis, now an adult, says his gambling began as a teenager after an early significant win and continued into adult life. The film interviews him at two separate points, before and after he sought help, and lets the two conversations sit against each other.
- - New study reveals alarming link between problem gambling and suicide risk in young adults. Short news item reporting University of Bristol research which found that people with gambling problems at age twenty had around four times the rate of suicide attempts compared with others in the same cohort. The researchers cite the finding as grounds for earlier intervention with young adults.
- - Inside the Dangerous World of Illegal Gambling (Full Episode) | Trafficked | National Geographic. Mariana van Zeller reports from inside unlicensed gambling operations, meeting people who run them and people who play in them. The episode asks what pulls players towards games outside the regulated market and what happens to those who lose money there.
- - The Recovery of a Degenerate Gambler-Louis Ruggiero. Louis Ruggiero gives a long filmed interview describing his own gambling and its consequences, including debt, time lost with his family, and a period he says left him suicidal. He talks about how he stopped and what recovery has looked like since.
- - What is gambling addiction? | APA. Brief clinical explainer from the American Psychiatric Association setting out what gambling disorder means as a diagnosis: repeated behaviour that continues despite significant consequences for the person, their family and those around them. Covers the diagnostic criteria and notes the disorder occurs in adolescents as well as adults.
- - How Gambling Addiction Hacks Your Brain | Dr. Keith Humphreys & Dr. Andrew Huberman. Stanford psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys discusses the mechanics of modern slot machines with Andrew Huberman, focusing on constant novelty and the design pattern researchers call losses disguised as wins. They connect those design choices to the growth in people seeking help.