Role of Motivation in the Progression of Problem Gambling: A Comparison of Early and Late Adults.

Motivation plays a dominant role in gambling progression. Most studies using motivational scales have revealed that certain motivations are associated with problem gambling. However, age differences were found to be negligible in gambling motivation.

Nonsmoking after simultaneous alcohol abstinence and smoking cessation program was associated with better drinking status outcome in Japanese alcohol-dependent men: A prospective follow-up study.

Background: Growing evidence suggests that intervention for smoking cessation enhances alcohol abstinence in treatment settings for alcohol dependence. However, research in this field is rare in Asians.

Method: We prospectively investigated the association of smoking status with drinking status using 9 surveys mailed during a 12-month period in 198 Japanese alcohol-dependent men (70 never/ex-smokers and 128 smokers) who admitted for the first time and completed a 3-month inpatient program for simultaneous alcohol abstinence and smoking cessation.

Development and validation of the Pachinko/Pachi-Slot Playing Ambivalence Scale.

Background: A scale aimed at measuring ambivalence among people with pachinko/pachi-slot playing disorder, the Pachinko/Pachi-Slot Playing Ambivalence Scale (PPAS), was developed and its reliability and validity ascertained.

Methods: A total of 522 participants (average year: 48.0) who were residing in Tokyo Metropolitan Area, and had played pachinko within the previous year completed questions relating to demographics, four gambling-related scales (including South Oaks Gambling Screen) and two general ambivalence scales (including Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire).

Dependence/addiction/use disorder from a therapeutic perspective -A preliminary study of preference for terms describing the condition.

This study focused on patients receiving specialized outpatient (n=26) care to improve addiction behavior (mainly patients with alcohol dependency) and investigated their preferences for terms that describe the relationship between a patient and the object of his or her addiction and how those preferences correlated with the patient's current stage of recovery. The results showed a correlation between a preference for the term "dependence" and a stagnated recovery and a correlation between a preference for the term "overindulgence" and recovery progress (p<0.05).

Exploration of Core Symptoms for the Diagnosis of Alcohol Dependence in the ICD-10.

Background: The classification of alcohol use disorder has changed over the past century. Now, the conceptualization of alcohol dependence is still controversial. Accumulating evidence has shown the reliability and validity for the diagnosis of alcohol dependence in the ICD-10 and DSM-IV.

[Topiramate treatment for decreasing alcohol consumption in alcoholics: a comparative study of responders and nonresponders].

Purpose: The present study investigated the effectiveness of topiramate (TPM) treatment for decreasing alcohol consumption in alcoholics.

Materials And Methods: Alcoholics of outpatients, relapsed repeatedly, were included in this study. The study was conducted over 24 weeks.

[Effects of autism features on alcoholism--especially from the aspect of recovery promoting factors].

Objective: It is important to evaluate and classify individual features of patients to select an appropriate treatment for alcoholism. In this study, we classified alcoholism types according to strength/weakness of autism features and investigated how these features were associated with onset, course, and especially continuation of abstinence.

Subjects And Methods: The subjects were 102 man outpatients diagnosed with alcoholism.

[Study on the perception of influencing factors in the course of alcoholism--a comparison among alcoholics, families, and health care professionals].

(1) We prepared a questionnaire modified from that of Edwards, G. et al, to investigate the factors influencing drinking behaviors. Responses of the questionnaire were filled out by the alcoholics, their families, and health care professionals in four psychiatric hospitals having intensive alcoholic rehabilitation programmes.