Journal Articles

Besana, F, Johal, G, Pasquariello, S, Bowden-Jones, H, Sharman, S (2026) Partial Dopamine Agonists and Gambling Disorder: A Comprehensive Review and Clinical Implications, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, ISSN: 0271-0749. DOI: 10.1097/JCP.0000000000002230.

Dapo-Famodu, A, Young, M, Tuico, K, Dymond, S, Ludvig, E, Roberts, A, Rogers, J, Sharman, S, Stark, S, Tunney, R (2026) Understanding funding-related bias in gambling research: Insights from unhealthy commodities industries and medical/pharmaceutical research - A scoping review, International Gambling Studies, ISSN: 1445-9795. DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2026.2697453.

Sharman, S (2026) Cutting the Mustard, Soccer and Society, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp.1-3, ISSN: 1466-0970. DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2026.2703406.

Kovařík, F, Sharman, S, Fiedor, D (2026) There, but Invisible: Warning Messages in Czech Gambling Advertising during Football Broadcasts, Acta Cytologica, pp.1-12, ISSN: 0001-5547. DOI: 10.1159/000553513.

Kovařík, F, Fiedor, D, Sharman, S (2026) This is ‘offside’: Gambling advertising during Czech football broadcasts, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 15(1), pp.419-428, ISSN: 2062-5871. DOI: 10.1556/2006.2025.00564.

Murphy, R, Downes, S, Murphy, M, Derevensky, J, Gavriel-Fried, B, Sharman, S, Roberts, A (2026) Teacher Attitudes Towards and Awareness of Adolescent Gambling Behaviour in the Republic of Ireland, Journal of Gambling Studies, 42(1), pp.279-304, ISSN: 1050-5350. DOI: 10.1007/s10899-025-10434-7.

Czakó, A, Potenza, MN, Hodgins, DC, Yu, SM, Wu, AMS, Jiménez-Murcia, S, Bowden-Jones, H, King, D, Billieux, J, Bőthe, B, Stein, DJ, _, _, Demetrovics, Z (2025) Research priorities in gambling: Findings of a large-scale expert study, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 14(3), pp.1222-1249, ISSN: 2062-5871. DOI: 10.1556/2006.2025.00072.

Roberts, A, Clarke, R, Laidler, F, Rogers, J, Harman, C, Bowden-Jones, H, Smith, L, Sharman, S (2025) Screening for gambling-related harm: Scholarly commentary addictive behaviors, Addictive Behaviors, 166, pp.108335-108335, ISSN: 0306-4603. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2025.108335.

Roberts, A, Rogers, J, Sharman, S, Stark, S, Dymond, S, Ludvig, EA, Tunney, RJ, O’Reilly, M, Young, MM (2025) Why it is important to conduct gambling research that is fair and free from conflicts of interest, Addiction, 120(4), pp.801-803, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI: 10.1111/add.16729.

Baker-Frampton, R, Dragomir, D, James, R, Sharman, S, Roberts, A (2025) Evaluating a Womens’ Residential Treatment Centre for Gambling Harm, Journal of Drugs Addiction & Therapeutics, 6(1), ISSN: 2754-4907. DOI: 10.47363/jdat/2025(6)159.

Besana, F, Gomis-Vicent, E, King-Parker, M, Bowden-Jones, H, Sharman, S (2025) ‘Virtual reality in clinical and experimental gambling research: a review of methodologies’, International Gambling Studies, 25(2), pp.205-227, ISSN: 1445-9795. DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2025.2465320.

Roberts, A, Rogers, J, Petrovskaya, E, Ashton, A, Beck, E, Ritchie, C, Turnbull, P, Johal, G, James, R, Parente, T, Boyce, C, Chamberlain, SR, Bowden‐Jones, H, Wong, P, Sharman, S (2024) Investigating gambling‐related suicide, Addiction, 119(12), pp.2223-2225, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI: 10.1111/add.16668.

Kock, L, Cox, S, Shahab, L, Roberts, A, Sharman, S, Buss, V, Brown, J (2024) Intersection of gambling with smoking and alcohol use in Great Britain: a cross-sectional survey in October 2022, BMJ Open, 14(4), DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079633.

Newall, P, Allami, Y, Andrade, M, Ayton, P, Baker‐Frampton, R, Bennett, D, Browne, M, Bunn, C, Bush‐Evans, R, Chen, S, Collard, S, De Jans, S, Derevensky, J, Dowling, NA, Dymond, S, Froude, A, Goyder, E, Heirene, RM, Hing, N, Hudders, L, Hunt, K, James, RJE, Li, E, Ludvig, EA, Marionneau, V, McGrane, E, Merkouris, SS, Orford, J, Parrado‐González, A, Pryce, R, Rockloff, M, Romild, U, Rossi, R, Russell, AMT, Singmann, H, Quosai, TS, Stark, S, Suomi, A, Swanton, TB, Talberg, N, Thoma, V, Torrance, J, Tulloch, C, van Holst, RJ, Walasek, L, Wardle, H, West, J, Wheaton, J, Xiao, LY, Young, MM, Bellringer, ME, Sharman, S, Roberts, A (2024) ‘No evidence of harm’ implies no evidence of safety: Framing the lack of causal evidence in gambling advertising research, Addiction, 119(2), pp.391-396, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI: 10.1111/add.16369.

Sharman, S, Piper, T, McGrane, E, Newall, PWS (2024) Gambling adverts in live TV coverage of the Qatar 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup, Addiction Research and Theory, 32(4), pp.237-244, ISSN: 1606-6359. DOI: 10.1080/16066359.2023.2245330.

Luquiens, A, Guillou, M, Giustiniani, J, Barrault, S, Caillon, J, Delmas, H, Achab, S, Bento, B, Billieux, J, Brevers, D, Brody, A, Brunault, P, Challet-Bouju, G, Chóliz, M, Clark, L, Cornil, A, Costes, JM, Devos, G, Díaz, R, Estevez, A, Grassi, G, Hakansson, A, Khazaal, Y, King, DL, Labrador, F, Lopez-Gonzalez, H, Newall, P, Perales, JC, Ribadier, A, Sescousse, G, Sharman, S, Taquet, P, Varescon, I, Von Hammerstein, C, Bonjour, T, Romo, L, Grall-Bronnec, M (2023) Author Correction: Pictograms to aid laypeople in identifying the addictiveness of gambling products (PictoGRRed study) (Scientific Reports, (2022), 12, 1, (22510), 10.1038/s41598-022-26963-9), Scientific Reports, 13(1), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30530-1.

Rogers, J, Roberts, A, Sharman, S, Dymond, S, Ludvig, EA, Tunney, RJ (2023) High stakes. Commentary on the 2023 United Kingdom government white paper on gambling reform, Addiction, 118(10), pp.2030-2031, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI: 10.1111/add.16286.

Onwuegbusi, T, Roberts, A, Sharman, S, Hogue, T (2023) An Eye Tracking Investigation of Young People's Gaze Behaviour to Gambling and Non-Gambling Moving Adverts, European Addiction Research, 29(2), pp.109-118, ISSN: 1022-6877. DOI: 10.1159/000529114.

Sharman, S, Ferreira, CA, Newall, PWS (2023) Gambling Advertising and Incidental Marketing Exposure in Soccer Matchday Programmes: A Longitudinal Study, Critical Gambling Studies, 4(1), pp.27-37, DOI: 10.29173/cgs116.

Roberts, A, Murphy, R, McNally, E-J, Derevensky, J, Sharman, S (2023) Teacher attitudes towards and awareness of adolescent gambling behavior in the UK, International Gambling Studies, 23(1), pp.160-184, ISSN: 1445-9795. DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2022.2105927.

Besana, F, Sharman, S, Harris, R, Bowden-Jones, H (2023) Dopamine partial agonists and gambling disorder – an updated systematic review of case reports, Neuroscience Applied, 2, p.103383, ISSN: 2772-4085. DOI: 10.1016/j.nsa.2023.103383.

Newall, PWS, Ferreira, CA, Sharman, S (2022) The frequency and content of televised UK gambling advertising during the men's 2020 Euro soccer tournament, Experimental Results, 3, DOI: 10.1017/exp.2022.26.

Smith, LR, Sharman, S, Roberts, A (2022) Gambling and crime: An exploration of gambling availability and culture in an English prison, Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 32(6), pp.389-403, ISSN: 0957-9664. DOI: 10.1002/cbm.2266.

Luquiens, A, Guillou, M, Giustiniani, J, Barrault, S, Caillon, J, Delmas, H, Achab, S, Bento, B, Billieux, J, Brody, A, Brunault, P, Challet-Bouju, G, Chóliz, M, Clark, L, Cornil, A, Costes, JM, Devos, G, Díaz, R, Estevez, A, Grassi, G, Hakansson, A, Khazaal, Y, King, DL, Labrador, F, Lopez-Gonzalez, H, Newall, P, Perales, JC, Ribadier, A, Sescousse, G, Sharman, S, Taquet, P, Varescon, I, Von Hammerstein, C, Bonjour, T, Romo, L, Grall-Bronnec, M (2022) Pictograms to aid laypeople in identifying the addictiveness of gambling products (PictoGRRed study), Scientific Reports, 12(1), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26963-9.

Andrade, M, Sharman, S, Xiao, LY, Newall, PWS (2022) Safer Gambling and Consumer Protection Failings Among 40 Frequently Visited Cryptocurrency-Based Online Gambling Operators, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 37(3), pp.545-557, ISSN: 0893-164X. DOI: 10.1037/adb0000885.

Sharman, S, Roberts, A, Bowden-Jones, H, Strang, J (2022) Gambling and COVID-19: Initial Findings from a UK Sample, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 20(5), pp.2743-2754, ISSN: 1557-1874. DOI: 10.1007/s11469-021-00545-8.

Englund, A, Sharman, S, Tas, B, Strang, J (2022) Could COVID expand the future of addiction research? Long-term implications in the pandemic era, Addiction, 117(8), pp.2135-2140, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI: 10.1111/add.15790.

Roberts, A, Sharman, S, Bowden-Jones, H (2022) Clinical services for problematic internet usage, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 46, DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101180.

Sharman, S, Roberts, A, Harris, B, Lockwood, R, Bowden-Jones, H (2022) The National Centre for Gaming Disorders (UK) - Who is accessing this service?, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 11(2), pp.147-149, ISSN: 2062-5871. DOI: 10.1556/2006.2022.00010.

Roberts, A, Sharman, S, Bowden‐Jones, H (2022) The ability of the UK population surveys to capture the true nature of the extent of gambling‐related harm, Addiction, 117(7), pp.2122-2123, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI: 10.1111/add.15864.

Sharman, S, Murphy, R, Turner, J, Roberts, A (2022) Predictors of suicide attempts in male UK gamblers seeking residential treatment, Addictive Behaviors, 126, pp.107171-107171, ISSN: 0306-4603. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107171.

Sharman, S (2022) Gambling in football: How much is too much?, Managing Sport and Leisure, 27(1-2), pp.79-86, ISSN: 2375-0472. DOI: 10.1080/23750472.2020.1811135.

Roberts, A, Rogers, J, Sharman, S, Melendez-Torres, GJ, Cowlishaw, S (2021) Gambling problems in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Addiction Research & Theory, 29(6), pp.454-468, ISSN: 1606-6359. DOI: 10.1080/16066359.2021.1876848.

Roberts, A, Sharman, S, King, M, Bayston, A, Bowden-Jones, H (2021) Treatment-Seeking Problem Gamblers: Characteristics of Individuals Who Offend to Finance Gambling, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 19(3), pp.824-836, ISSN: 1557-1874. DOI: 10.1007/s11469-019-00192-0.

Newall, PWS, Russell, AMT, Sharman, S, Walasek, L (2021) Recollected usage of legal youth gambling products: Comparisons between adult gamblers and non-gamblers in the UK and Australia, Addictive Behaviors, 114, ISSN: 0306-4603. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106685.

Sharman, S, Roberts, A, Bowden-Jones, H, Strang, J (2021) Gambling in COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK: Depression, Stress, and Anxiety, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 621497, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.621497.

Roberts, A, Murphy, R, Turner, J, Sharman, S (2020) Correction to: Predictors of Dropout in Disordered Gamblers in UK Residential Treatment, Journal of Gambling Studies, 36(4), pp.1415-1416, DOI: 10.1007/s10899-019-09907-3.

Sharman, S, Ferreira, CA, Newall, PWS (2020) Exposure to Gambling and Alcohol Marketing in Soccer Matchday Programmes, Journal of Gambling Studies, 36(3), pp.979-988, ISSN: 1050-5350. DOI: 10.1007/s10899-019-09912-6.

Newall, PWS, Russell, AMT, Sharman, S, Walasek, L (2020) Associations between recalled use of legal UK youth gambling products and adult disordered gambling, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 9(3), pp.863-868, ISSN: 2062-5871. DOI: 10.1556/2006.2020.00048.

Rogers, J, Landon, J, Sharman, S, Roberts, A (2020) Anonymous Women? A Scoping Review of the Experiences of Women in Gamblers Anonymous (GA), International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 18(4), pp.1008-1024, ISSN: 1557-1874. DOI: 10.1007/s11469-019-00101-5.

Wardle, H, Banks, J, Bebbington, P, Blank, L, Bowden Jones OBE, H, Bramley, S, Bunn, C, Casey, E, Cassidy, R, Chamberlain, SR, Close, J, Critchlow, N, Dobbie, F, Downs, C, Dymond, S, Fino, E, Goyder, E, Gray, C, Griffiths, M, Grindrod, P, Hogan, L, Hoon, A, Hunt, K, James, R, John, B, Manthorpe, J, McCambridge, J, McDaid, D, McKee, M, McManus, S, Moss, A, Norrie, C, Nutt, DJ, Orford, J, Pryce, R, Purves, R, Reith, G, Roberts, A, Roberts, E, Roderique-Davies, G, Rogers, J, Rogers, RD, Sharman, S, Strang, J, Tunney, R, Turner, J, West, R, Zendle, D (2020) Open letter from UK based academic scientists to the secretaries of state for digital, culture, media and sport and for health and social care regarding the need for independent funding for the prevention and treatment of gambling harms, BMJ, pp.m2613-m2613, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m2613.

Roberts, A, Murphy, R, Turner, J, Sharman, S (2020) Predictors of Dropout in Disordered Gamblers in UK Residential Treatment, Journal of Gambling Studies, 36(1), pp.373-386, DOI: 10.1007/s10899-019-09876-7.

Roberts, A, Sharman, S, Landon, J, Cowlishaw, S, Murphy, R, Meleck, S, Bowden-Jones, H (2020) Intimate Partner Violence in Treatment Seeking Problem Gamblers, Journal of Family Violence, 35(1), pp.65-72, ISSN: 0885-7482. DOI: 10.1007/s10896-019-00045-3.

Sharman, S, Butler, K, Roberts, A (2019) Psychosocial risk factors in disordered gambling: A descriptive systematic overview of vulnerable populations, Addictive Behaviors, 99, pp.106071-106071, ISSN: 0306-4603. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106071.

Sharman, S, Murphy, R, Turner, J, Roberts, A (2019) Psychosocial correlates in treatment seeking gamblers: Differences in early age onset gamblers vs later age onset gamblers, Addictive Behaviors, 97, pp.20-26, ISSN: 0306-4603. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.05.013.

Sharman, S, Clark, L, Roberts, A, Michalczuk, R, Cocks, R, Bowden-Jones, H (2019) Heterogeneity in Disordered Gambling: Decision-Making and Impulsivity in Gamblers Grouped by Preferred Form, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 588, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00588.

Kargas, N, Harley, KM, Roberts, A, Sharman, S (2019) Prevalence of clinical autistic traits within a homeless population: barriers to accessing homeless services, Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 28(2), pp.90-95, ISSN: 1053-0789. DOI: 10.1080/10530789.2019.1607139.

Sharman, S (2019) Gambling and Homelessness: Prevalence and Pathways, Current Addiction Reports, 6(2), pp.57-64, DOI: 10.1007/s40429-019-00242-6.

Roberts, A, Bowden-Jones, H, Roberts, D, Sharman, S (2019) Should GPs routinely screen for gambling disorders?, British Journal of General Practice, 69(682), pp.226-227, ISSN: 0960-1643. DOI: 10.3399/bjgp19x702329.

Sharman, S, Murphy, R, Turner, JJD, Roberts, A (2019) Trends and patterns in UK treatment seeking gamblers: 2000–2015, Addictive Behaviors, 89, pp.51-56, ISSN: 0306-4603. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.09.009.

Roberts, A, Landon, J, Sharman, S, Hakes, J, Suomi, A, Cowlishaw, S (2018) Gambling and physical intimate partner violence: Results from the national epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditions (NESARC), The American Journal on Addictions, 27(1), pp.7-14, ISSN: 1055-0496. DOI: 10.1111/ajad.12656.

Roberts, A, Sharman, S, Coid, J, Murphy, R, Bowden-Jones, H, Cowlishaw, S, Landon, J (2017) Gambling and negative life events in a nationally representative sample of UK men, Addictive Behaviors, 75, pp.95-102, ISSN: 0306-4603. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.07.002.

Limbrick-Oldfield, EH, Mick, I, Cocks, RE, McGonigle, J, Sharman, SP, Goldstone, AP, Stokes, PRA, Waldman, A, Erritzoe, D, Bowden-Jones, H, Nutt, D, Lingford-Hughes, A, Clark, L (2017) Neural substrates of cue reactivity and craving in gambling disorder, Translational Psychiatry, 7(1), DOI: 10.1038/tp.2016.256.

Sharman, S, Dreyer, J, Clark, L, Bowden-J, H (2016) Down and out in london: Addictive behaviors in homelessness, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 5(2), pp.318-324, ISSN: 2062-5871. DOI: 10.1556/2006.5.2016.037.

Sharman, S and Clark, L (2016) Mixed Emotions to Near-Miss Outcomes: A Psychophysiological Study with Facial Electromyography, Journal of Gambling Studies, 32(3), pp.823-834, ISSN: 1050-5350. DOI: 10.1007/S10899-015-9578-2.

Sharman, S, Dreyer, J, Aitken, M, Clark, L, Bowden-Jones, H (2015) Rates of problematic gambling in a British homeless sample: A preliminary study, Journal of Gambling Studies, 31(2), pp.525-532, ISSN: 1050-5350. DOI: 10.1007/s10899-014-9444-7.

Sharman, S, Aitken, MRF, Clark, L (2015) Dual effects of ‘losses disguised as wins’ and near-misses in a slot machine game, International Gambling Studies, 15(2), pp.212-223, ISSN: 1445-9795. DOI: 10.1080/14459795.2015.1020959.

Clark, L and Sharman, S (2014) Commentary on Dixon etal. (2014): Understanding the abuse liability of modern electronic gaming machines, Addiction, 109(11), pp.1929-1930, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI: 10.1111/add.12697.

Sharman, S, Aitken, M, Clark, L (2014) Reply to griffiths: The relationship between gambling and homelessness, Journal of Gambling Studies, 31(4), pp.1257-1259, ISSN: 1050-5350. DOI: 10.1007/s10899-014-9508-8.

Djamshidian, A, Sanotsky, Y, Matviyenko, Y, O'Sullivan, SS, Sharman, S, Selikhova, M, Fedoryshyn, L, Filts, Y, Bearn, J, Lees, AJ, Averbeck, BB (2013) Increased reflection impulsivity in patients with ephedrone-induced Parkinsonism, Addiction, 108(4), pp.771-779, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI: 10.1111/add.12080.

Djamshidian, A, O'Sullivan, SS, Sanotsky, Y, Sharman, S, Matviyenko, Y, Foltynie, T, Michalczuk, R, Aviles-Olmos, I, Fedoryshyn, L, Doherty, KM, Filts, Y, Selikhova, M, Bowden-Jones, H, Joyce, E, Lees, AJ, Averbeck, BB (2012) Decision making, impulsivity, and addictions: Do Parkinson's disease patients jump to conclusions?, Movement Disorders, 27(9), pp.1137-1145, ISSN: 0885-3185. DOI: 10.1002/mds.25105.