Farhat, Luis C.
Wampler, Jeremy
Steinberg, Marvin A.
Krishnan-Sarin, Suchitra
Hoff, Rani A.
Potenza, Marc N. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6323-1354
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 DA019039)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (RL1AA017539)
Article History
First Online: 20 July 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors have no pertinent disclosures and declare that they have no conflict of interest. Over the past 3 years, Dr. Potenza has received financial support (to Yale or personally) for the following. He has consulted for and advised Game Day Data, Addiction Policy Forum, and Opiant Therapeutics; received research support from the Mohegan Sun Casino and the National Center for Responsible Gaming; consulted for or advised legal and gambling entities on issues related to impulse control and addictive behaviors; provided clinical care related to impulse-control and addictive behaviors; performed grant reviews; edited journals/journal sections; given academic lectures in grand rounds, CME events and other clinical/scientific venues; and generated books or chapters for publishers of mental health texts. The other authors report no disclosures.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (include name of committee + reference number) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Procedures were approved by the IRB at the Yale School of Medicine. After obtaining permission from school parties, parental consent was obtained through passive consent procedures. Specifically, parents received a letter sent through each school explaining the study, and if they did not want their children to participate in the survey, they were to reply to the letter; if no reply was received, parental consent was considered granted. All adolescents who participated in the survey were properly informed about the study and provided opportunities not to participate.