
Pathological gambling (PG) is associated with significant negative financial, psychosocial and health consequences (Petry, Ammerman, Bohl, Doersch, Gay, Kadden, Molina, & Steinberg, 2006). Current research estimates the prevalence of lifetime PG to be about 1.5% among U.S. adults (Shaffer, Hall, & Vander Bilt, 1999). Despite the prevalence and associated sequelae of gambling disorders, little is known about the effectiveness of current treatments for PG (Petry et al., 2006). This week’s WAGER reviews a study that evaluates the relative efficacy of three interventions for reducing gambling among treatment-seeking pathological gamblers. Petry et al. (2006) recruited pathological gamblers (N=231) using media announcements... Read more →