RUNNING HEAD: Alcoholism – Pathological Gambling Co-Morbidity Alcoholism – Pathological Gambling Co-Morbidity 2 Author Notes

Alcoholism – Pathological Gambling Co-Morbidity 3 This article summarizes a symposium held at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) in San Francisco, California, and was prepared on behalf of the symposium participants by the symposium co-organizers/co-chairs. Prior research with both clinical and non-clinical populations indicates a high co-morbidity between alcohol use disorders and pathological gambling. This symposium involved a set of papers in which exciting new research on this form of co-morbidity was presented. The studies spanned populations of problem gambling help line callers, problem gamblers attempting to recover, and community-recruited gambler research volunteers. The studies used methodologies ranging from questionnaire and interview to lab-based paradigms (i.e., cognitive an