Exploring The Tangled Relationship Between Gambling Addiction And Sleep Disorders

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Nonparaphilic CSB is currently not recognized in the DSM-5 but during the DSM revision process, diagnostic criteria were proposed for CSB (referred to as Hypersexuality Disorder) (Reid et al., 2012). In addition, during the DSM-5 process there was considerable debate concerning the relationship of CSB to substance addictions (Grant, Potenza, Weinstein & Gorelick, 2010; Goodman, 1992; Fong et al., 2012; Kor, Fogel, Reid & Potenza, 2013), and in fact, the proposed diagnostic criteria for DSM-5 Hypersexuality Disorder (for the purposes of this manuscript, CSB will be used interchangeably with Hypersexuality Disorder or just hypersexuality) seemed to reflect criteria used for substance use disorders (Appendix) (Kafka, 2010). With the exclusion of CSB from the DSM-5, the issue of how best to conceptualize CSB continues to remain unresolved (Barth & Kinder, 1987; Carnes, 1992; Grant et al., 2014; Levine & Troiden, 1988).

This research project was not designed to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between problem gambling and sleep troubles, or vice versa. Comorbid conditions are normally assumed to interrelate and strengthen each other, however, so the presence of sleeping disorders in problem or pathological gamblers is not a situation to be taken lightly. The sponsors of the UCLA study point out that gambling addiction frequently co-occurs with mood disorders, anxiety disorders and substance abuse problems, and each of these conditions will exacerbate and be exacerbated by sleep disorders. Additionally, other studies have shown that sleep disturbances are associated with poor decision-making, reduced risk aversion and a lack of impulse control, all of which are implicated in compulsive, habitual gambling. Even though more research into the specific aspects of the gambling-insomnia connection is needed, addiction specialists working with pathological and problem gamblers should be screening for sleep disorders and taking the results of those tests very seriously as they forge their treatment plans.

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