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Gambling Commission [UK] |
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The Gambling Act 2005 reforms virtually all of the previous restrictions on the advertising of gambling. The Gambling Commission has included an ordinary code provision within its Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) which requires licensees to comply with the advertising codes of practice that apply to the form and media in which they advertise their gambling facilities and services. |
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Division on Addictions, Cambridge Health Alliance |
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The Wager |
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Patients being treated for Parkinson disease (PD) have been reported to have a disproportionately high prevalence of disordered gambling and other impulse control disorders (ICDs) such as compulsive shopping, binge-eating, and hypersexuality (e.g., Bostwick, Hecksel, Stevens, Bower, & Ahlskog, 2009; Evans, Strafella, Weintraub, & Stacy, 2009). The development of these disorders appears to be most associated with dopamine agonists, a type of medication commonly used to treat PD, but estimates of the effect have varied. This week’s WAGER reviews a large cross-sectional study designed to obtain more accurate data about ICD prevalence among those with PD and the association of ICDs with dopamine agonists (Weintraub et al., 2010). |
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The Gambling Commission has published an advice note which sets out how it assesses whether a particular prize machine is, or is not, a gaming machine as defined in section 6 of the Gambling Act 2005. |
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The past year has been a challenging one for many businesses facing the impact of the worldwide recession, and the gambling industry is no exception. Against this background, the Commission has continued to develop a cost-effective and proportionate approach to keeping gambling fair and safe for all. We are conscious both of the economic pressures on operators and the constraints on our own resources, with fee levels frozen for at least two years and a small decline in fee income this year. The vast majority of operators aim to offer gambling responsibly and legally. Increasingly, this enables us to limit our role with those operators to the provision of advice and oversight of their own efforts to ensure compliance. As a result we are able to concentrate our efforts on those who compete unfairly and put the public significantly at risk by trading illegally or otherwise flouting regulatory requirements. |
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Division on Addictions, Cambridge Health Alliance |
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Historically, effective treatment for gambling disorders has been an elusive goal, considering that only a very small proportion of gamblers ever seek treatment (Cunningham, 2005). Brief treatment, which typically involves treatment of ten sessions or less, has been effective with alcohol related problems. Therefore, an adaptation of the brief treatment model might be equally effective for disordered gamblers unwilling to seek formal treatment. This week’s WAGER reviews a report by Hodgins, Currie, Currie, and Fick (2009) in their continuing research on brief treatment variations. |
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Division on Addictions, Cambridge Health Alliance |
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Addiction and the Humanities |
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines “aphorism” (second definition) as “Any principle or precept expressed in few words; a short pithy sentence containing a truth of general import; a maxim.” Arguably, much of peoples’ attitudes and knowledge are reflected in and derive from such aphorisms. However, such sayings might gain broad recognition and acceptance without containing a truth. This week, Addiction and Humanities reviews several selections from The Quotable Gambler (Paul Lyons, 1999) to determine how they map onto current knowledge and practices related to gambling. |
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Rose, I. Nelson |
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BASIS Online |
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What do insurance, commodities trading and state lotteries all have in common? They were all originally outlawed as forms of gambling. The major fight today over whether poker should be legalized usually revolves around the question of whether it is predominantly skill or chance. But this unnecessarily gives up part of the political as well as legal battleground. Many activities that are indisputably gambling are now operated under state licenses, or by the state itself. And other activities, such as insurance and commodities, are today generally not even thought of as gambling. |
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Productivity Commission [Australia] |
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Gambling was substantially liberalised in most Australian states and territories in the 1990s. Subsequent years saw not only a surge in gambling expenditure and industry growth, but also adverse impacts on many Australians and their families. The consequent backlash within the community led to the first independent national public inquiry by the Productivity Commission in 1999. Since then, there have been significant changes in the gambling industry and its regulatory environment, with a greater policy focus on community awareness and harm prevention and minimisation. Notwithstanding this, community and political concerns remain evident. There have also been developments within parts of the industry, which have a more national character than before. The Council of Australian Governments accordingly asked the Commission to conduct a follow-up review, with a focus on problem gambling and the scope to consider other aspects of the industry. Consistent with this, the Commission has not sought to replicate the coverage and depth of its earlier research, but rather to concentrate on providing evidence-based advice to governments about policies that would improve outcomes for gamblers and the community as a whole. A key challenge is to identify policies most likely to be effective in reducing the harms associated with gambling, while preserving most of the benefits. This is a complex task for public policy. The coverage and design of regulation require particular care to ensure that the benefits exceed the costs, and that account is taken of what is often imperfect evidence. |
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Division on Addictions, Cambridge Health Alliance |
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The Wager |
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Conventional wisdom suggests that specific gambling activities, such as Internet gambling, are especially “addictive.” However, recent research suggests that the relationship between gambling and disordered gambling is more complicated than playing specific types of games. Using a United States youth sample, research suggests that gambling involvement (e.g., the number of games one plays), is a better predictor of disordered gambling than participation in any particular game (Welte, Barnes, Tidwell, & Hoffman, 2009). This week the WAGER reviews a study that further explored this phenomena by examining the association between disordered gambling and gambling involvement within the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey (LaPlante, Nelson, LaBrie, & Shaffer, 2009). |
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Gambling Commission [UK] |
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In the summer of 2009 the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) established a Sports Betting Integrity Panel, bringing together experts from the betting industry, the police, players, fans, Sports Governing Bodies, the legal profession and the Gambling Commission, to make recommendations as to the design and implementation of an integrated strategy to uphold integrity in sport and associated betting. One set of the recommendations of the Panel’s report concerned the Commission, building on its existing work, establishing a Sports Betting Intelligence Unit (SBIU). The Commission welcomed this recommendation and the SBIU is operational. This document sets out the terms of reference for the SBIU, based on the recommendations of the Panel. |
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