Study Shows Drug For Alcohol Abuse Also Helps Problem Gambling

With studies being done almost every day, it is hard to find one to actually believe. A new study has been released that shows that a drug being used for alcohol abuse can also treat problem gambling.

University of Minnesota has finished a study that claims that the drug naltrexone has decreased the urge to gamble. The drug comes in various brand names such as Depade and Revia.

Seventy seven people were involved in the study and out of those seventy seven that took the drug, almost half of the subjects were able to abstain from gambling for at least a month. Only 10.5 of those studied who took a placebo were able to abstain for a month.

One of the criteria for the study was the subject had to gamble for six to thirty two hours a week. The participants ranged in age from fourteen, all the way up to fifty nine.

Nineteen of the people involved took a placebo, while the other fifty eight were given naltrexone. The doses were 100 or 150 milligrams daily for up to eighteen weeks.

The downfall of the study were some of the symptoms. Almost twenty percent involved in the study claimed they had anxiety disorder. Most of the others reported symptoms of depression.

June 5, 2008
Posted By Larry Rutherford
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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