Viewpoints UI expert LaLumiere analyzes addiction
External Media | 2015.03.27 | 12:35 pm
Assistant professor of psychology Ryan LaLumiere analyzes the factors that cause people to become addicted.
addiction
Pathological gambling runs in families
Problem may be biologically related to PTSD, social anxiety disorder, and antisocial personality
By: Jennifer Brown | 2014.06.17 | 02:43 pm
A study by University of Iowa researchers confirms that pathological gambling runs in families and shows that first-degree relatives of pathological gamblers are eight times more likely to develop this problem in their lifetime than relatives of people without pathological gambling.
The Daily Beast UI psychiatry professor comments on compulsive shoppers
External Media | 2013.04.03 | 11:15 am
Donald Black, professor of psychiatry at the UI’s Carver College of Medicine, says that most compulsive shoppers are not famous or wealthy, just ordinary people with an unusual problem, in a shopping addiction story, featuring Buzz Bissinger, who recently checked into rehab.
Culturally sensitive addiction treatment
UI establishes National Addiction Technology Transfer Center
By: Bill Barker | 2013.03.04 | 09:44 am
In a move to promote adoption of culturally legitimate evidence-based addictions treatment and recovery services to American Indians and Alaska Natives throughout the United States, the University of Iowa College of Public Health has established the National American Indian and Alaska Native Addiction Technology Transfer Center (N AI & AN ATTC).
KCRG TV 9 UI researcher says percentage of Iowans with gambling problem declines
External Media | 2013.01.07 | 11:13 am
University of Iowa psychiatrist and gambling researcher Donald W. Black says his latest published study on compulsive gambling has found that the percentage of gamblers who report gambling problems has dropped despite the expansion of casinos in the state.
More casinos do not mean more gamblers
Study suggests fewer gamblers in Iowa despite casino growth in state
By: Richard C. Lewis | 2012.12.14 | 08:24 am
While the number of casinos in Iowa has doubled since 1995, there are fewer gamblers overall, and fewer gambling addicts as well, according to a new study from the University of Iowa. The results suggest the market for gaming facilities, in Iowa and other states, reaches a saturation point. Findings published in the journal “Annals of Clinical Psychiatry.”
