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Shead, N. Will; Derevensky, Jeffrey L.; Fong, Timothy W.; Gupta, Rina – Journal of College Student Development, 2012
There is a current lack of descriptive information on college students who gamble on the Internet. With the increasing popularity of Internet gambling, this study aimed to better understand the profile of Internet gamblers among a sample of college students. Of 909 students at the University of California-Los Angeles who completed an online…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Drinking, Body Composition, Internet
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Chiu, Eddie Yu-Wai; Woo, Kent – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2012
This preliminary study examined the characteristics and risk factors of problem gambling among Chinese American adolescents. A total of 192 Chinese American students (aged 13-19) from 9th to 12th grades were recruited from three high schools in San Francisco, California. Students were administered the South Oaks Gambling Screen Revised for…
Descriptors: Evidence, Risk, Addictive Behavior, Adolescents
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 2010
People in the United States, though only five percent of the world's population, consume two-thirds of the world's illegal drugs. People in the United States, though only five percent of the world's population, incarcerate 25 percent of the world's prisoners. It is no coincidence that of the 2.3 million inmates in U.S. prisons, 65 percent--1.5…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Mental Disorders, Drug Abuse, Costs