Sharman, Steve http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9816-7981
Roberts, Amanda http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2889-9551
Bowden-Jones, Henrietta http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9314-3697
Strang, John http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5413-2725
Article History
Accepted: 17 May 2021
First Online: 4 June 2021
Declarations
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: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
: SS has received funding from the Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA), and the NIHR. He is currently employed at the NAC, part of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and declares no conflicts.AR has received funding from Santander, Public Health for Lincoln, The Royal Society, The Maurice and Jacqueline Bennett Charitable Trust, East Midlands RDS and internal University of Lincoln awards. She has no conflicts of interest.HB–J is the Director of The National Problem Gambling Clinic which receives funds from the National Health Service and GambleAware. She is Honorary Professor at University College London. Board member, International Society of Addiction Medicine, Board member of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Addictions. President Elect of the Royal Society of Medicine Psychiatry Section.JS is a researcher and clinician who has worked with a range of governmental and non-governmental organizations, and with pharmaceutical and technology companies to seek to identify new or improved treatments from whom his employer (King’s College London) has received honoraria, travel costs and/or consultancy payments, but these do not have a relationship to the study and findings reported here. For a fuller account, see JS’s web-page at: ExternalRef removed. JS is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator and is supported by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London.