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Signs like these—the altered emotional states and need to gamble daily—point towards a gambling addiction. According to the American Psychiatric Association, addiction is a behavior which a person keeps repeating, despite negative consequences. Dana Forman, associate program director of the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling notes that, “gambling leads to loss of large material items, careers, personal relationships and even emotional health. People may even lose their physical health,” he says. “They may get ulcers and headaches—things that they may not think...
Research done by the Harvard Medical School’s Division on Addictions categorizes different gambling behaviors into three levels, ranging from innocent fun to pathological behavior, which is characterized by financial and personal distress, depression, manic episodes and even personality issues. States Forman, “Those susceptible to addiction usually have emotional problems or a slightly incorrect map of the world. There’s a common pattern called ‘chasing.’ Individuals start out by dabbling in gambling and winning. So they think: ‘Wow, this is easy...
Work began at the end of last school year, and staff members—including Online Chairs Joshua J. Forman ’03, Frank P. Siu ’03 and Design Chair Robin S. Lee ’03—worked throughout the summer from places as remote as Japan to rewrite and redesign the system, switching the technology from asp to asp.net, a new version of software that was released this summer...
...Staff Writer Joshua J Forman can be reached at jforman@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard also sent a distance medley relay team, consisting of sophomores Sean Meeker, Matt Seidel and John Traugott, and freshman Alasdair McLean-Forman. The relay team placed 11th out of 15 teams in its heat with a time of 10:00.56—a better time than Heptagonal rivals Dartmouth and Columbia at the same meet...