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Article: Pathological Gambling and Cross-Addiction/Reply
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
- Author:
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Dear Editor: I read with enthusiasm the triad of articles dedicated to pathological gambling in the August 2004 issue of the CJP (1-3), but when finished, I felt somehow disappointed. The persistent avoidance of even mentioning 12-step-based models of addiction as alternatives to understanding pathological gambling in fact greatly limits the 3 papers.
The editorial by Dr Ladouceur attempts to explain problem gambling in terms of a pure cognitive model (1) wherein pathological gambling stems from the sufferer's inability to understand the independent randomness of chance events, confirmed by the fact that most individuals will hold nonscientific and false beliefs if exposed to gambling. The ...