The intersection of mobile accessibility and sophisticated behavioral algorithms has created a significant shift in public health challenges regarding online gambling. 🏛️📜

"Why Online Gambling Addiction Is Rising in 2025 and Beyond." For those interested in digital ethics and social welfare, this is an excellent resource.

Full article here:
🔗 https://www.mattsheabooks.net/why-online-gambling-addiction-is-rising-in-2025-and-beyond/

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this article remains one of my favourite Weird Historical Addiction articles to date, and this excerpt a favourite among favourites. it just feels like it perfectly encapsulates a time and place in addiction research history.

two mechanisms by which physiological differences may facilitate 'alcoholism' are proposed, but the perception that this is an individual medical problem with a physiological explanation is so ingrained that these are the apparent limits of aetiological association. there's not even a cursory aside given to the idea that perhaps these are the effect, not cause, of heavy drinking.

From Jellinek (1960) - "Alcoholism, a genus and some of its species".

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