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StudiuAdicțiiÎncredere înaltă22.06.2026

Stigmatization of People with Addiction by Health Professionals: A Scoping Review of Current Knowledge

This scoping review of 19 literature reviews documents that 20–51% of health professionals hold negative attitudes toward people with substance and non-substance use disorders, with negative stigma significantly impacting care quality. Addiction training, clinical experience, and adoption of the medical chronic disease model are identified as key factors that reduce stigmatization and improve professional engagement in addiction care.

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Addiction substitution and concurrent recovery in gambling disorder: Who substitutes and why?

This mixed-method study of 185 recovered gambling disorder individuals examined whether recovery involves substitution with other addictive behaviors or concurrent recovery across addictions. Substitution was primarily driven by using other substances/behaviors as coping mechanisms, while concurrent recovery occurred when addictions were mutually reinforcing; negative emotional states were common in both pathways.

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Behavioral Addiction from the Asian Americans Perspective: Exploration of Public and Help-Seeking Stigma

This empirical study surveyed 431 Asian Americans to examine how public stigma and self-stigma affect willingness to seek mental health treatment for gambling and Internet gaming addictions. Findings indicate that self-stigma about help-seeking and public stigma attitudes significantly influence treatment-seeking behavior, with recommendations for culturally-informed community outreach to reduce barriers to mental health service utilization.

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Bipolar Disorder and Gaming Disorder: Diagnostic Compatibility and Exclusion Criteria

This narrative review examines whether Gaming Disorder can be diagnosed alongside bipolar disorder, specifically analyzing an ICD-11 exclusion criterion that restricts GD diagnosis when disordered gaming occurs only during manic/elevated mood episodes. The review synthesizes diagnostic criteria development and published studies to assess the validity of this exclusion criterion and proposes directions for future research on differential diagnosis between Gaming Disorder and pathological gambling.

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Attitudes of Non-Psychiatric Healthcare Workers Toward Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder in a Tertiary Hospital

This study assessed attitudes of 128 doctors and 785 nurses toward patients with alcohol use disorder using the validated Alcohol & Alcohol-Problems Perceptions Questionnaire. While most healthcare workers recognized the importance of intervention, they reported low confidence in their own competence, available support, and motivation to treat these patients, indicating need for institutional training programs.

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Prevalence of comorbid pathological gambling in substance use disorders

This study investigates the frequency and patterns of concurrent gambling disorder among individuals with substance use disorders, exploring the relationship between these two behavioral/substance addictions. The research contributes to understanding shared neurobiological and psychological mechanisms underlying multiple addiction disorders.

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Neural mechanisms linking treatment outcomes and recovery in substance-related and addictive disorders

This narrative review examines neural mechanisms underlying recovery from substance use disorders, gambling disorder, and internet gaming disorder, evaluating how pharmacological and psychological treatments impact brain processes through neuroimaging evidence. The analysis integrates major addiction models (dual process, reward deficiency syndrome) with advanced analytical approaches like machine learning to inform future treatment development strategies.

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Behavioral Addictions in ICD-11: An Ongoing Scientific Debate

The Journal of Behavioral Addictions published a 2022 debate featuring three main papers and eleven commentaries examining behavioral addictions in the ICD-11 classification system, with particular focus on compulsive sexual behavior disorder. Despite some disagreements on specific details, all contributors agreed on the importance of further research in this area.

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Working memory performance in disordered gambling and gaming: A systematic review

This systematic review of 17 peer-reviewed studies examines the relationship between working memory (a key executive function component) and gaming/gambling disorders, finding reduced working memory capacity consistently associated with both conditions. Results indicate gaming disorder and gambling disorder patients demonstrate decreased working memory performance compared to healthy controls, with severity correlating to cognitive impairment.

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Brain Activation in Gambling Disorder: An fMRI Study of Cue Reactivity to Slot-Machine Gambling

This fMRI study examines neural activation patterns in patients with gambling disorder (N=10) compared to healthy controls (N=20) when viewing gambling-related cues such as slot machines versus neutral images. The research applies established cue reactivity paradigms from addiction neuroscience to identify reward system activation and craving-related brain regions specific to behavioral gambling addiction.

StudiuAdicțiiÎncredere bună21.06.2026

Spirituality and Behavioral Addictions: Narrative Review

This narrative review examines the complex relationship between spirituality and behavioral addictions including gaming disorder, gambling disorder, internet use problems, smartphone use problems, compulsive sexual behavior, and compulsive buying. The review synthesizes literature showing spirituality can function as either a protective factor supporting recovery or a potential risk factor, with implications for clinical practice and future research.

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Current Advances in Behavioral Addictions: From Fundamental Research to Clinical Practice

This narrative review examines five behavioral addictions (gambling disorder, internet gaming disorder, compulsive sexual behavior, compulsive buying-shopping, and problematic social media use), their clinical relevance, diagnostic validation, and frequent comorbidity with depression, anxiety, and ADHD. Cognitive-behavioral therapy demonstrates the strongest empirical support for treatment, as no medications have regulatory approval for behavioral addictions, highlighting the need for enhanced screening and public health approaches.

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Artificial Intelligence in Addiction: Challenges and Opportunities

This article examines the potential applications and limitations of AI technologies in addressing addiction-related challenges across prevention, diagnosis, and treatment domains. The work discusses both the promising opportunities AI offers for personalized interventions and the practical, ethical, and technical obstacles that must be overcome for effective implementation.

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Vitality Structures in Addictive Game Design: A Design-Phenomenological Framework for Understanding Gaming Disorder

This research paper critiques the construct validity of existing 'addictive design' research and proposes 'vitality structures'—a design-phenomenological framework to identify psychologically relevant connections between game design elements and player experiences in gaming disorder. The author argues that systematic identification of these structures can improve the scientific understanding of gaming disorder mechanics and design effects.

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CONSORT Adherence in Randomized Controlled Trials for Behavioral Addiction: A Systematic Review

This systematic review examined 63 RCTs of interventions for gambling and gaming disorders published between 2010-2023, assessing their compliance with CONSORT reporting standards. The analysis found that behavioral addiction RCTs reported a median of 57.6% of relevant CONSORT items, with commonly omitted details including abstracts, methodological changes, harms assessment, and effect size precision.

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Integrating EEG biomarkers in the neurocognitive screening of executive functions in substance and behavioral addiction

This work explores the use of EEG (electroencephalography) biomarkers as an objective neurophysiological tool for assessing executive function deficits in individuals with substance and behavioral addictions. The approach aims to improve diagnostic accuracy and treatment monitoring through quantifiable brain activity patterns associated with cognitive control and decision-making impairments.

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Lifetime Alcohol Use Disorder and Gambling Disorder: Clinical Profile and Treatment Response

This study analyzed pooled data from gambling disorder clinical trials to examine whether lifetime alcohol use disorder history affects clinical presentation or treatment outcomes. Individuals with lifetime alcohol use disorder showed higher rates of male gender, greater body weight, family history of alcohol use disorder, psychiatric hospitalizations, and gambling-related legal problems, but did not differ significantly in gambling severity or treatment response.

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Gaming Disorder in ICD-11: Background, Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Implications

This review examines gaming disorder as a behavioral addiction newly recognized in the ICD-11, discussing its diagnostic criteria and etiological factors within an 'addiction triangle' framework that considers individual risk factors, environmental influences, and game-intrinsic properties. The article contextualizes how excessive gaming behavior can impair psychosocial functioning in young people and explores implications for clinical practice.

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