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Review
. 2018 Mar 2:9:43-51.
doi: 10.2147/AHMT.S135423. eCollection 2018.

Gambling disorder in adolescents: prevalence, new developments, and treatment challenges

Georgios D Floros  1
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Review

Gambling disorder in adolescents: prevalence, new developments, and treatment challenges

Georgios D Floros. Adolesc Health Med Ther. .

Abstract

Research on adolescence gambling over the past twenty years has revealed significant incidence and prevalence rates and highlighted the possible negative effects on an adolescent's well-being. Several risk and protective factors have also been identified. Over the course of the past few years, technological advances have heralded the advent of new avenues for gambling as well as new opportunities to gamble without any direct monetary exchange. This review article examines those established trends as well as the new issues that we are faced with, in order to accurately portray the current challenges in research, prevention, and treatment.

Keywords: adolescence; gambling disorder.

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Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure The author reports no conflicts of interest in this work.

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