Prevalence of excessive gambling before and after introduction of a national lottery in the United Kingdom: Another example of the single distribution theory

Addiction

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 959-966

  Grun, Lucia ^a   McKeigue, Paul ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; INCOME; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PREVALENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GAMBLING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 0033933978     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2000.95695912.x     Document Type: Article

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