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Self-Exclusion and the Court: Recent Developments and their Implications for Responsible Gambling
New Horizons in Responsible
Gambling Conference
Vancouver, B.C., January 28-30, 2013
Tuesday 29th, 10:50-11:50
Robert Ladouceur, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Laval University, Québec, Canada.
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Outline
1. Brief reminder of what is Responsible Gambling
• Different pathways to achieve RG
• The most important progress made over the last 3 decades in the field of gambling
2. Main results of Self-Exclusion trials
3. Responsibility issues
4. Conclusions and questions
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Responsible Gambling is defined as
a set of policies and practices designed to prevent and reduce potential harms associated with
gambling
This can be achieved only by restricting gambling expenditure to affordable limits.
What is Responsible Gambling?
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When we achieve this goal, the
incidence of problem gambling is eventually reduced (that is, the development
of new cases of problem gamblers over a period of time).
More specifically…
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But how can we achieve this goal?
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Stockwell (2006) suggested three pathways, but from a broader perspective, we have only 2 options or perspectives for
gambling related problems, and they are not necessarily mutually
exclusive (Harm minimization can’t be applied to
gambling-related problems)
Tim Stockwell’s pathways
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Strategies that are intended to
reduce
the availability or accessibility of a
product.
Supply Reduction: The first pathway
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Strategies aimed to motivate users to
consume less overall and/or less per
occasion.
Targeting the individual/gambling
activities.
Demand Reduction: Second pathway
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What is the main difference between
Supply Reduction and
Demand Reduction
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Internal
Control
External
Control
Versus
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Internal
Control
External
Control
Versus
Supply reduction Demand reduction
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Where should we MAINLY focus our
interventions?
Internal Control
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What is the major progress we have made
over the last 3 decades in the field of gambling?
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Beyond any doubt, it is our commitment to
Empirical research
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1. Publication outlets: International Gambling Studies
Journal of Gambling Studies
Journal of Gambling Issues
Asian Journal of Gambling Issues and Public Health
Addiction and other important Journals
2. Number of grants in the field of Gambling
3. Number of researchers and clinicians
4. The use of empirically validated treatment
5. The number of important conferences and meetings
Empirical research as indicated in the following areas
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Why is Self-Exclusion an Important RG procedure?
For at least 3 reasons
1. Based on internal control
2. Few PG will seek professional help (3% per yr)
3. Some empirical or scientific support has been found
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1. The patron approach an employee of the venue
2. The patron signs a self-exclusion agreement and indicates a length of time
3. The patron engages him or herself not to come back in the venue
4. If the patron breaches, and the staff identifies the patron, the staff will walk the gambler out of the venue.
What is self-exclusion
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Main Findings of 7 studies
• The urge to gamble is significantly reduced during the SE period
• The perception of control over gambling is significantly increased
• The amount of time and money spent gambling is reduced during the SE period
• The intensity of negative consequences from gambling is significantly reduced
• Scores on the main instruments used to identify and diagnose gambling disorders (SOGS and DSM-IV) showed a significant reduction on gambling related problems.
• About 25 to 30% of the pathological gamblers at the time of entering SE do not meet this criterion after a period of 6 or 12 months
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Main Findings Over Time Limitations
• At the 6, 12, and 24 month about 40% to 50% had breached their contract at least once.
•One comment expressed by many SE patrons is that they felt alone during the SE period.
We can address this issue during the discussion period
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And what about the responsibility…
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Responsibility
• We should never forget that the ultimate decision to gamble or not gamble belongs to the individual.
• Voluntary self exclusion (as labeled in BC) a personal decision, relying on the individual’s responsibility to comply with it.
• Operators should offer a variety of RG measures on a voluntary basis.
• Operators have the responsibility to offer RG measures that are based on a scientific rather than on a political agenda.
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Responsibility
•Operators should have some effective procedures to identify SE breachers.
•Operators have the responsibility to examine which procedures are the most effective to achieve this goal
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And what about the responsibility…
•When exclusion is filled by a third party, the operators and/or the policy makers have the responsibility to evaluate such a procedure in order to avoid iatrogenic or negative unexpected effects.