Gambling During the COVID-19 Crisis - A Cause for Concern

Anders Håkansson1, Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Jose M Menchón

  • 1Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (AH); Gambling Disorder Unit, Malmö Addiction Center, Malmö, Sweden (AH); CIBER Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (FFA, SJM); Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain (FFA, JMM, SJM); Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (FFA, JMM, SJM); CIBER Salud Mental (CIBERSam), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (JMM); Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (MNP); The Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, Wethersfield, CT (MNP); The Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT (MNP); Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, CT (MNP); and Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (MNP).

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