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Long-term Outcomes of Childhood Family Income Supplements on Adult Functioning.
JAMA Pediatr
October 2022
Emeritus Faculty, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Importance: During an ongoing longitudinal cohort study, a casino opening created a natural cash transfer experiment. Some participating families received income supplements, and others did not. The children in this study are now adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElectronic gambling machines (EGMs) are among the most harmful forms of gambling. The structural characteristics of EGMs prolong and reinforce gambling similarly to other habit-forming technologies. In Finland, the wide availability of EGMs in non-casino locations is likely to further reinforce the habit-creating nature of gambling offer by incorporating EGMs into everyday practices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReliability assessment of temporal discounting measures in virtual reality environments.
Sci Rep
March 2021
Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
In recent years the emergence of high-performance virtual reality (VR) technology has opened up new possibilities for the examination of context effects in psychological studies. The opportunity to create ecologically valid stimulation in a highly controlled lab environment is especially relevant for studies of psychiatric disorders, where it can be problematic to confront participants with certain stimuli in real life. However, before VR can be confidently applied widely it is important to establish that commonly used behavioral tasks generate reliable data within a VR surrounding.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[What's new in addiction medicine].
Rev Med Suisse
January 2021
Centre cantonal d'addictologie, Réseau fribourgeois de santé mentale, Route de Morat 8, 1700 Fribourg.
The development of research, clinical practice and prevention in addiction medicine is, compared to other disciplines, more influenced by socio-political factors. Research on psychedelics has thus long been hampered by prohibitive policy but has recently been revived thanks to the relaxation of these political positions. The extensive prescription of baclofen for alcohol addiction is mainly the consequence of popular support and has so far not been clearly supported by specific research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLegalized Sports Betting, VLT Gambling, and State Gambling Revenues: Evidence from West Virginia.
East Econ J
January 2021
Department of Economics, John Chambers College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, PO Box 6025, Morgantown, WV 26506-6025 USA.
A Supreme Court decision legalizing sports betting in the US led states to legalize sports betting in order to generate new tax revenues from wagering on sports events. Most states already permit other forms of gambling and receive tax revenues from these sources. The literature analyzing consumer substitution in gambling spending contains some evidence on the impact of expansions in many types of gambling, but no evidence on the impact of expanded sports betting.
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