Pathological Gambling Associated With Aripiprazole or Dopamine Replacement Therapy: Do Patients Share the Same Features? A Review.

Early detection of gambling disorder (GD) and specialized care or the problem/pathological gamblers has substantially progressed in the last 15 years. This development was made possible by better knowledge about the many predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating risk factors that contribute to the disorder. Among them, the risk factor related to the use of dopamine receptor agonists was recently suggested.