Gambling
Addiction or Problem Gambling is an urge to gamble
despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. The
term is preferred to compulsive gambling among many professionals,
as few people described by the term experience true compulsions in
the clinical sense of the word. Problem gambling often is defined
by whether harm is experienced by the gambler or others, rather
than by the gambler's behaviour. Severe problem gambling may be
diagnosed as clinical pathological gambling if the gambler meets
certain criteria, or alternatively as a behavioural addiction.
