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Carlton, P.L., Manowitz, P., McBride, H., Nora, R., Swartzburg, M., & Goldstein, L. (1987).Attention deficit disorder and pathological gambling. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 48, 487-488.
Comings, D.E., Rosenthal, R.J., Lesieur, H.R., Rugle, L.J., Huhleman, D., Chiu, C., Dietz, G., & Gade, R. (1996). A study of the dopamine D2 receptor gene in pathological gambling. Pharmacogenetics, 6, 223-234.
Crockford, D.N. & el-Guebaly, N. (1998). Naltrexone in the treatment of pathological gambling and alcohol dependence. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 43 (1), 86.
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Lesieur, H.R. & Blume, S.B. (1991). Evaluation of patients treated for pathological gambling. British Journal of Addiction, 86(8), 1017-1028.
Lesieur, H.R. & Rosenthal, R.J. (1991). Pathological gambling: A review of the literature. Journal of Gambling Studies, 7, 5-39.
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Shaffer, H.J., Hall, M.N., & Vander Bilt, J. (1997). Estimating the prevalence of disordered gambling behavior in the United States and Canada: A meta-analysis. Harvard Medical School, Division on Addictions.
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Vitaro, G., Arseneault, L., & Tremblay, R.E. (1997). Dispositional predictors of problem gambling in male adolescents. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154(12), 1769-1770.
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