Pathological gambling and substance use disorders.

摘要

BACKGROUND: Pathological gambling (CPG) has been considered as a behavioral addiction having similarities with substance use disorders (SUDs). OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: Current conceptualizations of addiction, as well as experimental studies of PG and SUDs, are reviewed in order to provide a perspective on tbe areas of convergence between addictive behaviors in PG and SUDs. RESULTS: Shared features exist in diagnostic, clinical, physiological, and behavioral domains. CONCLUSIONS AND SCIELLTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: Similarities between PG and SUDs have important implicatiol1s for categorizing, assessing, preventing and treating both PO and SUDs.