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No Dice
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Business New Haven
9/4/2001
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - Yale researchers report that male gamblers are more likely than their distaff counterparts to report addictive behavior related to strategic or “face-to-face” forms of gambling such as blackjack or poker, according to the September edition of the American Journal of Psychiatry. Female gamblers, the study found, are more likely to report problems with non-strategic, less interpersonal forms of gaming such as slot machines or bingo. The differences observed in the study may lead to more targeted treatments for gambling addiction based on gender.
The study authors, led by Marc N. Potenza, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and director of the Problem Gambling Clinic at Yale, examined the characteristics of male and female gamblers who called the Connecticut Council on Gambling 's helpline in 1998 and 1999. Of the 562 calls used in the analysis, 62 percent were from male callers and 38 percent from female callers.
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