Gambling and governmental responsibilities

Human beings seem to be genetically predisposed to take risks in the hope of reward, but in gambling the risks often significantly outweigh the rewards. Should societies and governments attempt to regulate gambling, and how? Two papers in this month's issue of BJPsych International discuss prob...

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Autor principal: Skuse, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8274408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34287400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2021.8
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description Human beings seem to be genetically predisposed to take risks in the hope of reward, but in gambling the risks often significantly outweigh the rewards. Should societies and governments attempt to regulate gambling, and how? Two papers in this month's issue of BJPsych International discuss problem gambling in Nigeria and in Malaysia, and how government and society address it.
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spelling pubmed-82744082021-07-19 Gambling and governmental responsibilities Skuse, David BJPsych Int Editorial Human beings seem to be genetically predisposed to take risks in the hope of reward, but in gambling the risks often significantly outweigh the rewards. Should societies and governments attempt to regulate gambling, and how? Two papers in this month's issue of BJPsych International discuss problem gambling in Nigeria and in Malaysia, and how government and society address it. Cambridge University Press 2021-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8274408/ /pubmed/34287400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2021.8 Text en © The Author 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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