The wheel of fortune: Cycles and reactions in gambling policies

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1226-1227

  Room, Robin ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; NOTE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; UNITED KINGDOM;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; GAMBLING; GOVERNMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 24344465267     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01201.x     Document Type: Note

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