Saskatchewan - On Line Gambling and Problem Gambling Review
The Problem Gambling Community Program purpose is to strengthen the
capacity of communities to respond to the negative impacts of
gambling. The program works in collaboration with Saskatchewan Health
to deliver the public education and community development components
of Saskatchewan’ s problem gambling program.
Bill Ursel
Director
Problem Gambling Community Program
On Line Gambling and Problem Gambling Review
108th Edition: Methodists Stand Firm, On line Gambling Growth, Key
Conference in Alberta
1) The Human Face of Mental Illness: Problem Gambling Connection
The Canadian government report `The Human Face of Mental Health and
Mental Illness’ notes problem gambling within the text of the report.
The information in a previous report has been updated and new data
has been added from the 2002 Statistics Canada, Canadian Community
Health Survey Cycle Mental Health and Well-being, the 2002-2003
Hospital Mental Health Database, and the 2004 Health Behaviours of
School Children Survey.
Social cost, prevalence rates and community impacts are noted in the
report.
2) Growth in On Line Gambling Expected
Even though President Bush has signed a law to curb Internet gambling,
investors in the handful of U.S.-listed Internet gambling companies
may not want to fold their hands just yet.
Online gambling is expected to expand to a $15 billion industry this
year from $12 billion in 2005, according to DesJardins Securities
analyst David Shore, who cited statistics from Global Betting and
Gaming Consultants.
3) The Meaning of Gambling among Ontario Seniors in Small and Rural
Communities
The authors Joan E. Norris, Ph.D., C.Psych and Joseph A. Tindale,
Ph.D. note "Just as there is little research on seniors who gamble
and their families, there is also very little that focuses on older
people living in small towns and rural areas. In fact, distinction by
community size is absent despite the growing number of small and rural
Ontario communities that have built casinos or racetracks as a
solution to economic and social problems." The survey instrument
included a compilation of measures with established psychometric
properties, including: the Canadian Problem Gambling Index (CPGI),
Windsor Problem Gambling Screen for Older Adults (Windsor Screen),
Gambling Attitudes Scale (GAS), Family of Origin Scale, and questions
from the Guelph
Family Gambling Items questionnaire. Responses were received from
seniors across the province (n = 2,292).
4) Key Conference: Addressing Gambling-related Harm through
Evidence-based Practices Friday, March 30 & Saturday, March 31, 2007
Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Conference 2007 will focus on innovations on the treatment of problem
gambling. New developments in treatment and in treatment systems will
be highlighted. Advancements in basic research with implications for
prevention and treatment will also be presented.
5) British Reaction to U.S. On Line Legislation
The British Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell, October 31/06 renewed her
criticism of US authorities’ stance on online gambling, calling it
"the new prohibition" .
"It [the US stance] is the new prohibition. In relation to gambling,
you have three choices - you allow the market to rip, which some
jurisdictions do; you prohibit, which some jurisdictions do; or you
regulate," she said.
6) Oregon Replication Study
The study was conducted by the Oregon Gambling Addiction Treatment
Foundation as part of an ongoing effort to provide empirical evidence
to policy and decision makers, program managers, and the interested
public regarding the estimated prevalence of problem and pathological
gambling among Oregonians.
Over the past 10 years, the Foundation has commissioned 6 major
studies including the first adult gambling prevalence study in 1997,
the first adolescent gambling prevalence study in 1998, the first
older adult gambling prevalence study and an adult gambling prevalence
replication study in 2001, an etiological study of pathological
gambling in 2002, and this most current adult gambling prevalence
replication study.
7) British Methodists Stand Firm On Regulating On Line Gambling
Anthea Cox, Coordinating Secretary for Public Life and Social Justice,
Methodist Church in Great Britain declared: "The Methodist Church
welcomes the Government’s initiative in seeking international
agreement on the regulation of e-gambling."
