How Gambling Addiction will ruin your life I Psychiatry I Professor Colin O’Gara I EPS 13

Professor Colin O’Gara is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Head of Addiction Services at St. John of God’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Colin received his PHD in 2010 from the University of London for his work on the Genetics of Nicotine Addiction and is author of the book “Gambling Addiction in Ireland, Causes, Consequences and Recovery”.

We discuss gambling disorder (a highly stigmatized disease and one that causes untold suffering and destruction to individuals and their families), how gambling addiction will ruin your life, the psychiatry profession, technology, growing up in Cork and what’s potentially coming down the track

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00:00 Intro
02:28 Growing up in Cork
04:00 Genetics, Medicine & Psychiatry
13:19 Understanding Gambling Disorder
21:19 Process Addiction
29:14 Neurocircuitry, Conditioning & Chasing Behaviour
36:55 Gender & Statistics
39:45 Stigmatization
43:30 The Psychiatry Profession
48:19 Comorbidities
52:13 The Gambling Industry & Ireland
59:30 The Gathering Storm