No 11 (2004)

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Editorial

New name, new Advisory Board, new ethics guidelines
 
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Original Article

How do slot machines and other electronic gambling machines actually work?
Nigel Turner, Roger Horbay
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Loneliness and life dissatisfaction in gamblers
James Porter, Julia Ungar, G. Ron Frisch, Reena Chopra
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How do we know what we know? Epistemic tensions in social and cultural research on gambling 1980-2000
Virginia M. McGowan
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Slot machine tutorials
Editorial Team
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Policy Paper

Minimising the impact of gambling in the subtle degradation of democratic systems 1
Peter James Adams
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Clinic

A brochure on Internet risk awareness and prevention
Bill Ursel, Dave Morgan
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Opinion and Debate Series

Rolling the dice on casinos in Florida: Will residents view legalized casino gaming as a cure for a financial crisis?
Peter Ricci, Dana V. Tesone, Po-Ju Chen
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Why don't adolescents turn up for gambling treatment (revisited)?
Serge Chevalier, Mark Griffiths
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Gambling on the Internet: Some practical advice
Mark Griffiths, Jonathan Parke
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First Person Account

A First Nations hand game: Gambling from supernatural power
Phil Lange
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Service Profile

The Gambling and Other Impulse Control Disorders Outpatient Unit in São Paulo, Brazil: Integrating treatment and research
Hermano Tavares
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Book or Film Review

Dreamland (2000): Personal gambling stories add depth to academic approach
William Thompson
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The Cooler (2003): Film perpetuates faulty thinking about gambling
Thomas Appleyard
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Owning Mahowny (2003): Fiction no match for the reality of gambling
Chris Irwin
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Owning Mahowny (2003): A gambler without emotion
Jeffrey I. Kassinove
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