Citation

Letson LM. CNS Spectr. 1998; 3(6): 48-57.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, MBL Communications)

DOI

10.1017/S1092852900006015

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The growth of gambling across the United States over the past decade has created significant difficulties for pathological gamblers. The rise in problem gambling, coupled with an increasing strain on social and health care services for treatment of gamblers and their families, has resulted in an urgent need for innovative interventions that target patients, health care providers, educational institutions, government, media, and the gambling industry. This article describes the impact of gambling from a consumer- protection perspective, and offers approaches to promoting public awareness of compulsive gambling as a pervasive problem that affects multiple areas of society.

Language: en

Keywords

awareness; compulsion; consumer; finance; health insurance; health service; human; managed care; mass medium; pathological gambling; prevalence; priority journal; review; social work; substance abuse; suicide