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Deals with gambling as a social phenomenon and the prevention and treatment of gambling problems.
http://www.camh.net/egambling/
Provides information about the Chinese Community Problem Gambling Project in San Francisco, California. Also, provides a problem gambling self-assessment in both Chinese and English.
http://www.nicoschc.com/
Contains articles by women gamblers in recovery.
http://www.femalegamblers.org/
Links provided by the Minnesota Institute of Public Health. Includes "Beyond the Odds", their quarterly newsletter on problem and compulsive gambling.
http://www.miph.org/gambling/index.html
Education to prevent the harmful effects of problem gambling. Curriculum materials for schools and colleges and free downloadable exercises by schools.
http://www.knowodds.org/
Specializes in responsible programs for the gaming and wagering industries, professional, accredited training programs, and in senior citizen and adolescent compulsive gambling issues. Includes Wanna Bet? magazine for kids concerned about gambling.
http://www.nati.org/
Help is available for every problem gambler in Oregon. This state-funded foundation has reports on adolescent gambling and problem gambling.
http://www.gamblingaddiction.org/
Providing a hub for the research, treatment, and discussion of problem gambling. A center for the gaming industry and professionals who are concerned with the problem of gambling addiction.
http://www.problemgambling.com/
Home website for author of "A Way to Quit Gambling" for compulsive gambling addiction problem.
http://jxc2.tripod.com/index.html
Diagnosis and treatment of problem gambling.
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/newsletter/FPN_4_7.html
Magazine for kids concerned about the dangers of gambling addiction.
http://www.wannabet.org/
This organization addresses gambling problem issues in the United Kingdom.
http://www.gamcare.org.uk/
This organization addresses gambling problem issues in New Zealand.
http://www.cgs.co.nz/
Helping prevent the development of problems associated with gaming in Africa.
http://www.responsiblegaming.co.za
Supports the development of services that will reduce the impact of problem gambling. APGSA members are administrators of public funds dedicated to the provision of problem gambling services.
http://www.apgsa.org
This site is dedicated to preserving "Good Life" by opposing expanded gambling in the state of Nebraska, U.S.A..
http://www.gamblingwiththegoodlife.com/
Psychological, social, and behavioral viewpoints on pathological gambling.
http://www.gamblingphd.com/gambling-psychology.htm
This site presents the Gambler Addiction Index (GAI), a test for gambler problem and pathiology assessment.
http://www.gambler-assessments.com
This is a Christ-centered gambling addiction recovery program, produced for churches.
http://www.chancetochange.org/
A new program in Australia to monitor problem gamblers and help remove them from gaming venues.
http://www.gamblingassistanceprogram.com.au/
This site is currently doing a survey for research about poker slot machine gambling addicts.
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psy...e/thomas/index_pokermachine.html
Attempts to educates the public in Nova Scotia to the dangers of video lottery machines.
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/b_walsh/volts
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse provides academic and government reports on problem gambling in Canada.
http://www.ccsa.ca/index.asp?ID=74
This site is trying to protect the vulnerable from online gambling in the United Kingdom by blocking access to it.
http://www.stopgambling.co.uk/
Offering preventive educational services at high schools, colleges, and workplaces. Includes screening quiz and background information. Based in New England, USA.
http://www.formanconsulting.com/
Provides information about the devastating affect that addictive gambling has on the problem gambler and his family.
http://www.oagaa.org/
Peer-reviewed paper reports on the findings of research relating to Internet gambling in the workplace. The author also examine technologies by which employee gambling can be limited or monitored.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_4/fox/