Grandstanding research group reunion in Denver with Justin Tosi and josh grubbs 🦚

🚨 Sports bettors are more prone to substance use & abuse 🚨

A new research study from josh grubbs & Shane W Kraus found that those who wager on sports are almost 2x as likely to binge drink than those who don't.
Behavioral Addictions Lab JAMA Network Open

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The Center on Alcohol, Substance Use and Addictions (CASAA) at Univ. of New Mexico is recognizing Professor Joshua Grubbs for his newly published JAMA Network Open research. Why the connection he found between sports betting/wagering and binge drinking is so important:
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Fabulous Univ. of New Mexico newsroom story about Univ. of New MexicoCASAA and UNM Psychology Department faculty josh grubbs new research on sports betting and high risk drinking!

Glad to see this one out!

It's a simple paper, but in it, we show that folks that have recently bet on sports are reporting substantially greater frequency of binge/heavy drinking.

w/ Shane W Kraus and supported by ICRG Kindbridge Behavioral Health and PGNOhio

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Latest paper!
josh grubbs Behavioral Addictions Lab ICRG UNLV IGI UNLV Research UNLV Liberal Arts Kindbridge Research Institute NCPG Nevada Council JAMA Network Open

Binge Drinking Among Sports Gamblers jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

A story discussing one of our recent studies.
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People who bet on sports tend to engage in a wide variety of gambling activities via @psypost psypost.org/people-who-bet…

Shoutout to James McGraw for leading this project and the contributions from Jenny Grant Weinandy Shane W Kraus Christopher Floyd and Camille Hoagland

Recent publication. Go Team!
Problematic pornography use and suicidal thoughts: Results from cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38451727/
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We are seeking LGBTQ+ adults for a research study examining the opioid use and health experiences. More details about the study can be found by clicking the link: survey.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9G…

Our lab is helping collect participants for a study on parent's perceptions of their child's video gaming behavior. In particular, there are questions pertaining to microtransactions and lootboxes. Please like and retweet if you can.

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The U.S. Department of Education hits Liberty University with a $16 million penalty for creating a culture of fear on campus:
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I think I speak for all alumni when I tell you that we are are shocked, I tell you, shocked, well, not really that shocked.

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Amazing work by Dr. Grant-Weinandy! (Anticipated Motives for Gambling Treatment in Adults from the U.S.) link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Latest ISS paper!
International Sex Survey Ateret Gewirtz, PhD Dr. Beáta Bőthe UNLV Research UNLV Liberal Arts Behavioral Addictions Lab josh grubbs Joël Billieux Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel

Global cross-cultural validation of a brief measure for identifying po... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Latest paper (Compulsive Sexual Behavior in LGBTQ Individuals and Minority Stress Theory: A Literature Review and Theoretical Integration)! trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/84…
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