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"The Horseshoe Casino, with chandeliers and a gambling floor bigger than a football field, was the largest of the gaming houses that the government had recently allowed to be built all over the countryside. The gambling establishments were heavily taxed, meaning that the state was paying part of its medicine bill with casino chips. The federal government had also been forced to shift more tax dollars to pay for medical care." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"People are addicted to sexual activity, alcohol, cigarettes and gambling, a new addiction on the horizon that is going to bring tremendous problems as [local and state] governments continue to finance themselves with the revenue from gambling establishments. Another one is addiction to exercise. I have some patients who, if they cannot run on any particular day, actually go into a form of withdrawal. Even when they get injured, they still go out and exacerbate that injury by continuing to exercise." Myths about happiness, Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The Horseshoe Casino, with chandeliers and a gambling floor bigger than a football field, was the largest of the gaming houses that the government had recently allowed to be built all over the countryside. The gambling establishments were heavily taxed, meaning that the state was paying part of its medicine bill with casino chips. The federal government had also been forced to shift more tax dollars to pay for medical care." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Nor is heavy gambling compatible with heavy drinking. No, a man has to find a vice that suits him and stick with it. So, when the economy goes sour, a smoker doesn't give up smoking. A real drinker doesn't give up the bottle. Instead, he gives up fair-weather spending, to which he has no attachment, and sunny-day stocks to which he owes no fidelity. By comparison, the vice stocks do pretty well. Is this the time to buy vice stocks? Well, no. It is a comment on our era that prices of tobacco, liquor, sex, and gambling companies are already high." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "When times get tough, people turn to drinking, smoking, gambling, and sex, say the experts. But good men, we think, are loyal to their vices. They don't give up on them when times get tough, but neither do they favor them when they are in the chips. People need a well-developed vice they can stick with through thick or thin. Otherwise, they are prey for every new fad. A man can't, for example, be a womanizer and a drunk at the same time. Nor is heavy gambling compatible with heavy drinking. No, a man has to find a vice that suits him and stick with it." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"The Institutes and Novels regulate the activities of bishops, abbots, monks, and priests, penalizing not simply behavioral offenses like gambling or theater going, but doctrinal heresies as well. In this, the Codex was simply the latest assertion of emperor over episcopate. To sweeten the pill he was forcing the bishops to swallow, however, Justinian agreed to add language to the Code that made Chuich property inalienable; that is, the lands of the Church could never be sold, or bequeathed." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"If she'd been typical, we would not know what she was feeling, and we certainly wouldn't have known about her shot of Bailey's in the morning or her gambling," laughs Bee. "Because of that, I've gotten to know her in ways that most people would have never known their grandparent. I can trust her more than just about anyone on this earth, because I can always trust that what she says is what she really thinks. My guess is that's why everyone in town is drawn to her." Bee says, "My impression of Grandma Lou is that whatever was dealt to her, she made the best of it." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"With the proliferation of lotteries and casinos, gambling is fast becoming America's national pastime. When it comes to gambling, it's difficult to deny we live in an Orwellian era—consider this passage from George Orwell's 1984 (1949): "The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles [proletarians or working class] paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"The alcoholic will try to drink two drinks and go home, but he winds up drinking 15 or 16 drinks. The gambling addict may take $100 and leave a credit card in the trunk of the car, but before the evening is over, she is probably back out to the car, getting the credit card. The third is that the consequences of the behavior are bad or negative and the individual continues doing the behavior. The alcoholic gets a DUI, which might stop a person who is just a social drinker. It doesn't stop the alcoholic. A gambler may write a bad check, have problems from that, but it will not stop the behavior." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "They may run up charge cards, or get involved in gambling, financial affairs, extramarital affairs, alcohol or drug abuse that they would not otherwise be doing. It becomes almost the reverse of the depression spectrum—they need less sleep, they need less food, and everything is very intense. It can become rather horrific because people can become exhausted. They're sleeping two or three hours a day, if that. They may be getting by on a cup of coffee and a soda and cigarettes. At the same time they have this overwhelming sense of omnipotence about themselves and their abilities." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Another school of thought, called Relapse Prevention, suggests that for indulgent or addictive behaviors—overeating, gambling, drug use—the first three months of the initial change in behavior are crucial. If you make it past those first 12 weeks, your chances of relapse are greatly reduced.) So there's probably a time frame for behaviors to become habitual that ranges from 5 to 12 weeks. Dr. Leslie Lytle of the University of Minnesota, a registered dietitian with a Ph.D." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"It triggered a gambling compulsion that went away when the drug was discontinued. gambling is hard to kick, so I thought you might be interested in my experience. Turmeric has been a godsend to me on two fronts. BOSWELLIA (BOSWELLIA SERRATA) Ayurvedic Indian healers have been using boswellia (Indian frankincense) to treat rheumatism for a very long time. More recently, Swiss veterinarians tested a dietary supplement containing an extract of boswellia. They found that it provided "symptomatic support in canine osteoarthritic disease." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"The reason is that alcohol dampens the arousing effects of gambling, which means that the person can engage in more gambling. Without the alcohol, the gambling would push the Arousal personality to the limit, and thus end the gambling or cause some type of physical or mental breakdown. Opposites do not always contradict. On the contrary, they may be used to reinforce the patterns you really enjoy. So look for those areas where you use satiation or arousal to allow you to enjoy more of what you truly like —either more satiation, or greater arousal." - Joel C. Robertson, Peak-Performance Living: Easy, Drug-Free Ways to Alter Your own Brain Chemistry and Achieve Optimal Healt (Get the book.)

"When emotional stress becomes too great, we turn to escapes such as food, sugar, soft drinks, alcohol, nicotine, sex, destructive anger, manipulating and controlling others, gambling, or legal and illegal drugs. When the stress is not alleviated by sedation, which is always temporary, and when it is not addressed by a resolution of the underlying emotional conflict, disease symptoms begin to appear. The addiction problem and the emotional pain continue." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In studying the electrodermal activity of people involved in another published study which was examining learned response in a particular type of gambling card game, Bierman found that the participants registered rapid changes in EDA response before they were handed out their cards. Furthermore, these differences tended to correspond to the type of cards they got. Those about to receive a bad hand were more rattled and had all the hallmarks of a heightened fight-or-flight response." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"A famous and well-travelled ethnographer of games, gambling, and 'secret societies' (and therefore a familiar of the US Chinese communities), Culin turned his attentions to 'The Practice of Medicine by the Chinese in America' in the late 1880s: Many of the Chinese stores in our American cities keep a supply of Chinese drugs, and all of them sell Chinese proprietary medicines, such as pills to aid digestion, the 'red pills' Sha hi un for cholera, catarrh, snuff, and other specifics compounded in the Canton drug shops." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Thus, pathological gambling enjoys the same status as myocardial infarction."19 Because of the prominence of the DSM, and because of its scientific and existential claims, we can examine the DSM itself as a proxy for understanding what is meant by the notion of mental illness. The first edition of the DSM was 128 pages in length and enumerated 106 diagnoses. Each edition has grown. The fourth edition (text revised) now has 943 pages and enumerates 365 diagnoses. Thus, in five decades the number of specific diagnoses has tripled." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Men consistently display higher rates of substance abuse and "chronic maladaptive" personality traits, such as gambling or antisocial behaviors; more common among women are anxiety disorders and depression. "Gender roles," Fran said. So much of who we are, male and female, comes from gender roles." "And don't forget social class," I added, for we knew that as socioeconomic status increases, diagnosable mental illness and psychological distress decrease."6 "Money doesn't always help," Fran concluded, "but it almost never hurts." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"One "saw" her husband gambling away the family funds; the other "saw" hers buying expensive gifts for a secret sweetheart. Confronting the startled men with this knowledge on their return home, the wives both decided to forgive and forget, but the author of the article intoned the moral: "Let husbands from home be cautious how they act, and keep in the right path, for by this new mesmeric discovery, wives can keep a watchful eye on all their movements, and nothing can be concealed from them in applying to this great moral discovery for the means of knowledge and detection." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"There have been 180 outcome studies to date, for people suffering from conditions as diverse as drug and alcohol abuse, smoking, diabetes, gambling, HIV, eating disorders, anxiety, and depression. Most studies have found that people exposed to Motivational Interviewing as a pretreatment, and sometimes as the treatment itself, experience substantial gains. Motivational Interviewing seems poised for a "tipping point"—a broad takeoff. Wthout Miller and Rollnick's ever having marketed the technique (they do have a bare-bones Web site, www.motivational interviewing." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "There are currendy about 150 clinical trials being conducted to test CBT for an ever-widening number of problems: Tourette's syndrome, gambling addiction, obesity, irritable bowel syndrome, and as a therapy for sexually abused kids.11 It also has no side effects—unless you count the homework. (This is meant as a joke, but not really—the fact is that CBT requires real effort, focus, and resolve.) But the main difference between CBT and drugs lies in the relapse rates: that is, the return for a duration of at least two weeks of the symptoms of a significant depressive episode." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The Cocoa-tree, like other London clubs of the 18th century, became known for its high play: Horace Walpole, writing to Horace Mann in 1780, said that £180,000 had changed hands in only one night's gambling. By far the best-known of the London clubs was White's, which has recently passed the three-hundred-year-mark. White's was born in 1693 as White's Chocolate House, at the bottom of St. James's. It was opened by the Italian Francis White (a name probably anglicized from Francesco Bianchi), and soon became known for its lively politics and high-stakes gambling." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"The brain functions the same way whether the addiction is to alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, or any other addictive substance or behavior. As addiction progresses, there is less and less room for anything else in life. When an addict quits, what's left is emptiness. In this respect, dealing with addiction is similar to battling feelings of anxiety and depression: getting rid of the problem is only the first step. Once the addiction or the negative emotions are gone, the void needs to be filled with some positive behavior for the change to take root." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "The same changes occur regardless of whether the addiction is to drugs or gambling or eating. Once the reward has the brain's attention, the prefrontal cortex instructs the hippocampus to remember the scenario and sensation in vivid detail. If it's greasy food that you can't resist, the brain links the aroma of Kentucky Fried Chicken to Colonel Sanders's beard and that red and white bucket. Those cues take on salience and get linked together into a web of associations. Each time you drive up to KFC, the synaptic connections linking everything together get stronger and pick up new cues." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "All the things people become addicted to — alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, drugs, sex, carbohydrates, gambling, playing video games, shopping, living on the edge—boost the dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. Regardless of the varying psychological effects different drugs have on the mind, they all boost dopamine in the reward center. As an illustration of the power of drugs, consider that while sex increases dopamine levels 50 to 100 percent, cocaine sends dopamine skyrocketing 300 to 800 percent beyond normal levels." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "Scientists are now characterizing behavior such as gambling, compulsive shopping, and even overeating in the same biological terms they use to explain substance abuse. The common denominator is an out-of-control reward system, which some people are born with and some people develop. Odyssey House has been around since the late 1960s, offering services from counseling to job training, elder care to family reconciliation. In the spring of 2000, an employee named John Tavolacci started taking residents running in Central Park, with the goal of training for a 5K charity run held each fall. " - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"For example, in the 1950s and 1960s of my youth, gambling was considered a vice, with criminal sanctions applied to it, occupying the distant margins of society. Now, forty years later, gambling is a mainstream recreation in an entertainment-saturated culture. Following that a little further, though, one can't fail to see how the new attitude toward gambling reflects a deeper fundamental shift in normative thinking— that so much current behavior is predicated on the belief that it is possible to get something for nothing." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"It triggered a gambling compulsion that went away when the drug was discontinued. gambling is hard to kick, so I thought you might be interested in my experience. Turmeric has been a godsend to me on two fronts. Other readers have discovered some hazards not yet reported in the medical literature. Susceptible people may suffer allergic reactions (such as rash) to turmeric. We also caution patients on warfarin (Coumadin) that one reader experienced a significant increase in that drug's anticoagulant effect when she added turmeric to her regimen." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Hotel too cold inside," wrote one doctor in an evaluation he filled out after a meeting at the Sheraton Hotel in Atlantic City, the gambling mecca. "Resort places preferred." The physician was also irritated by what he viewed as another shortcoming of the weekend he had just enjoyed. Parke-Davis had paid for him to bring his entire family to Atlantic City but had failed to provide entertainment for his children. Another doctor complained after the company paid for a three-day weekend at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel overlooking Central Park in Manhattan." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

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