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Abt, Vicki, James F. Smith, and Eugene M. Christiansen.The Business of Risk: Commercial Gambling in Mainstream America. Lawrence, K.S.: University of Kansas Press, 1985.
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He has written widely on gambling, crime, and addiction. He is author of The Chase: Career of the Compulsive Gambler,and editor of Journal of Gambling Studies.He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association work group on disorders of impulse control. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Council on Problem Gambling.
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Lesieur, H.R. Compulsive gambling. Soc 29, 43–50 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695311
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