Chicago – University of Chicago Psychiatry Professor Dr. John Grant told WWJ that an all natural vitamin called N-acetyl cysteine could help gambling addicts quit their costly habit. The vitamin is available at most health stores.

Grant has studied the brain of addicts and found that when people become hooked on gambling parts of their brains get “hijacked.” 

“These parts of the brain involve the way that we make decisions, the way that we process risk and reward,” Grant said. “We have a natural reward center in the brain that gets very revved up. Once it gets hooked on something, it keeps kind of saying to us, if you will, keep doing it, keep doing it. It’s beyond what most people’s drive would be.”

Grant added that the natural N-acetyl cysteine vitamin has been shown to tame that part of the brain.

A study sponsored by the National Institute of Health is now looking at the effects of the pill. But according to research conducted by Grant, the pill vitamin helps most people.