Even Tiny Tots Show Signs of Addictive Personalities  Chances
are you wouldn't look at a three-year-old running around with
their friends and think, "That kid's definitely going to grow up
to have a serious gambling addiction" or "Boy, is she ever
headed for a drug problem." And yet a new study has shown that
children's behavior at that age can offer real clues about their
risk of suffering from addictions later in life.  The study
looked at nearly 1,000 people in New Zealand and tracked them
from birth to age 32, looking at their psychological, economic,
and intellectual life. This is one of just a few longitudinal
studies done that offers insight into addiction, and it's shed a
lot of light on the origins of it. In short, what the
researchers have just found is that kids who were labeled
"undercontrolled" when they were three were more than twice as
likely to have problems with gambling later (at age 21 and 32)
than were their well-adjusted peers. And it's not just gambling.
An earlier analysis of data from