Losing money and the support of family and friends are common consequences of alcoholism. Studies show, however, that gambling addiction is more prevalent in adults compared with alcoholism, and can have the same consequences.
On Monday, the Graduate Student Association sponsored a "Healing Through Light" candlelight vigil to mark the one-month anniversary of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan at UB's Newman Center.
The UB 2020 Civic Engagement and Public Policy Initiative will be sponsoring the Buffalo Poverty Research Workshop II: Women and Homelessness on Friday from 1 to 5 p.m.
UB's Research Institute on Addictions will be hosting a four-part series on alcohol and alcohol addiction beginning on March 4 and continuing throughout the spring at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The opening presentation will be held by Kenneth Leonard, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at the Research Institute on Addictions and vice chair for research in the department of psychiatry at UB.
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