ISBN : 9780190074562
"Responsible gambling" refers to a range of strategies, initiatives, and activities introduced by gambling regulators, policymakers, and industry operators to reduce gambling-related harms. There is an absence of agreement about the definition of responsible gambling among these parties, and stakeholders' experiences reflect varied and often conflicting positions about the development, implementation, and maintenance of existing responsible gambling programs. Complicating these issues further, there is little empirical evidence supporting the current crop of responsible gambling activities. Consequently, there is a pressing need to bring together key similarities and differences associated with disparate stakeholder groups.
Responsible Gambling: Primary Stakeholder Perspectives will inform and better ground both current and future debates focused on the topic of responsible gambling and its intended outcomes. Chapters address responsible gambling from the perspective of five groups of complementary stakeholders: scientists/researchers; clinicians; gambling operators; public policy makers/regulators; and recovering gamblers. Contributors address responsible gambling through the lens of the Reno Model, an approach that emphasizes the importance of stakeholders working together and using evidence-based methods to reduce gambling-related harms. Building upon and expanding the Reno Model and addressing conflicts and ethical compromises so that these programs can achieve their intended objectives (reducing the worldwide rate of gambling-related harms), Responsible Gambling will be of value to scientists, clinicians, policy makers, regulators, and industry operators interested in responsible gambling strategies and activities.
Foreword
Phil Satre
Preface
1. Responsible Gambling and Its Stakeholders: An Overview
Howard J. Shaffer, Alexander Blaszczynski, Robert Ladouceur, Peter Collins, and Davis Fong
STAKEHOLDERS
ACADEMICS AND SCIENTISTS
2. Should we do away with Responsible Gambling? Perspectives from Research Scientists
Debi A. LaPlante, Heather M. Gray, and Sarah E. Nelson
3. Responsible Gambling: An Academic Perspective
Paul Delfabbro & Daniel King
CLINICIANS AND PUBLIC HEALTH WORKERS
4. Gambling Expansion and Its Association with Disordered Gambling Trends
Ken C. Winters and Nathan Smith
5. Responsible Gambling: Public Health and Social Justice Considerations to Inform Research, Policy, and Practice
Víctor Ortiz and Haner Hernández
6. Responsible Gambling: A Problem Gambler's Perspective
Jodie Nealley and Amanda Winters
7. Responsible Gambling: Consumer and Reformed Problem Gambler Perspectives
Gabriele Byrne
8. Are Responsible Gambling Programs Important? More Importantly, Do They Work?
Arnie Wexler and Sheila Wexler
INDUSTRY OPERATORS
9. Responsible Gambling: From an International Gambling Industry Stakeholder Perspective
Joachim Haeusler
ORGANIZATIONS
10. Responsible Gambling: Organizational Perspective
Christine Reilly
11. Responsible Gambling from a Non-profit Perspective
Jamie Wiebe and Jon Kelly
POLICY MAKERS, REGULATORS, AND LAWYERS
12. The Status of Responsible Gaming: A Massachusetts Perspective
Stephen P. Crosby and Mark Vander Linden
13. A Gambling Lawyer's Perspective on Responsible Gambling
Simon Planzer & Martin Lycka
Afterword
Peter Collins
