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      Addiction and technology: Plus ça change plus c’est la même (The more things change, the more they remain the same)

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          Excessive use of the internet for gambling, gaming and behavioural addiction, are a focus of contemporary interest. The authors delve into the archives to explore the connections between the growth of various forms of technology, commerce, addictive behaviours and responses of the State, in colonial India. The interplay between the growth of the telegraph network in 19th century India, and its influence on various forms of gambling, including speculation on opium prices, and the rain, as a theme of wager make interesting stories, as do the governmental responses to these. Clinical and social responses to information technology raised much the same concerns as they do now

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          A cross-sectional study of problem gambling and its correlates among college students in South India

          Background In the Western world, a significant portion of college students have gambled. College gamblers have one of the highest rates of problem gambling. To date, there have been no studies on gambling participation or the rates of problem gambling in India. Aims This study evaluated the prevalence of gambling participation and problem gambling in college students in India. It also evaluated demographic and psychosocial correlates of gambling in that population. Method We surveyed 5784 college students from 58 colleges in the district of Ernakulam, Kerala, India, using cluster random sampling. Students completed questionnaires that addressed gambling, substance use, psychological distress, suicidality and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Results A total of 5580 completed questionnaires were returned, and while only 1090 (19.5%) college students reported having ever gambled, 415 (7.4%) reported problem gambling. Lotteries were the most popular form of gambling. Problem gamblers in comparison with non-gamblers were significantly more likely to be male, have a part-time job, greater academic failures, higher substance use, higher psychological distress scores, higher suicidality and higher ADHD symptom scores. In comparison with non-problem gamblers, problem gamblers were significantly more likely to have greater academic failures, higher psychological distress scores, higher suicidality and higher ADHD symptom scores. Conclusions This study, the first to look at the prevalence of gambling in India, found relatively low rates of gambling participation in college students but high rates of problem gambling among those who did gamble. Correlates of gambling were generally similar to those noted in other countries. Since 38% of college students who had gambled had a gambling problem, there is a need for immediate public health measures to raise awareness about gambling, and to prevent and treat problem gambling in this population. Declaration of interest S.G. was (until October 2014) a member of the UK Responsible Gambling Strategy Board, and authored the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Faculty report FR/AP/01 Gambling: The Hidden Addiction – Future Trends in Addictions (2014). Copyright and usage © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
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                Journal
                Indian J Psychiatry
                Indian J Psychiatry
                IJPsy
                Indian Journal of Psychiatry
                Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd (India )
                0019-5545
                1998-3794
                Apr-Jun 2017
                : 59
                : 2
                : 236-239
                Affiliations
                [1]Department of Psychiatry, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, India
                [1 ]Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
                Author notes
                Address for correspondence: Dr. Sanjeev Jain, Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. E-mail: sjain.nimhans@ 123456gmail.com
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                IJPsy-59-236
                10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_371_16
                5547869
                8715b184-3504-4f14-b076-15f5217abed9
                Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Psychiatry

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