What is worse, an addiction to drugs, alcohol or gambling?

Any of the three have a potential for lethality. All three hit similar receptor sites in the reward system in similar ways. All three are “cunning, baffling and powerful”. All three “hijack” the brain and, in NIDA's Nora Voklow's expression, “take away a person's free will”. read more

I’m not a gambling addict, but I will say that because there is no physical payoff with gambling, just a momentary release from the torment of addiction, that gambling looks like the worst of all to me. read more

When it comes to addiction, it’s fairly simply to grasp how drugs or alcohol hold a person’s mind and body captive. But for behaviors like gambling, science is just starting to explain an often misunderstood addiction. read more

Why gambling may be the most dangerous addiction of all. Of all the destructive habits in the world, gambling would seem to be one of the more benign. It doesn't blow out your liver. read more