Eight Years Later: What Residential Treatment Left Behind for Gamblers in Recovery

Eight Years Later: What Residential Treatment Left Behind for Gamblers in Recovery

An eight-year follow-up of 36 former residential clients treated for co-occurring gambling and substance use disorders found durable gains — less craving, higher life satisfaction, employment up from 25% to 66.7% — even though 61% gambled at some point after discharge.

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Mechanisms and durability of residential treatment for co-occurring gambling and substance use disorders: a mixed-methods eight-year follow-up study — Frontiers in Psychiatry (2026), via PubMed — Im, Silver, Donovan, Wong, Le, Goel, Tunikipati, Ruderman and Fong

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