Treatment for gambling addiction is currently limited to conversation therapy.
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Two medications commonly given to people addicted to opioid drugs can also help treat gambling addiction. This finding suggests that brain circuits similar to those that cause drug addiction may be involved in behavioral addiction.
Addiction is usually thought of in the context of people who cannot quit alcohol or who take drugs. Most of these drugs are drugs that act through opioid receptors in the brain, such as heroin and fentanyl. This will cause the release…
Source: www.newscientist.com
