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Responsible Gaming
in Québec and Around the World
For a number of years now, various studies and extensive research have been carried out worldwide on the subject of compulsive gambling. It’s an issue that interests an increasing number of researchers and clinicians, who are attempting to understand this addiction in order to reduce its harmful effects through prevention and treatment programs.
Here are the major Canadian organizations conducting research on compulsive gambling:
- Canadian
Centre on Substance Abuse
Ontario - Centre
for Addiction and Mental Health
Ontario - International
Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and
High-Risk Behaviours
McGill University, Québec - Centre québécois
d'excellence pour la prévention et le
traitement du jeu
Université Laval, Québec (in French only) - Institut
national de santé publique du Québec
(in French only) - Ontario
Problem Gambling Research Centre
Ontario
Other Useful Links
Many organizations in Canada and around the world are committed to the fight against compulsive gambling, be it to regulate, prevent or treat this problem.
They include, to name just a few:
Canadian Sites
- Ministère
de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec
(in French only) - Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux du Québec
- Atlantic Lottery Corporation
- Acadie-Bathurst Health Authority
- Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission
- British Columbia Partnership for Responsible Gambling
- Canadian Partnership for
Responsible Gambling
Ontario
- Journal of Gambling
Issues
A publication of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Ontario - Manitoba Lottery Corporation
- Nova Scotia Department of Health
- Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation
- Ontario Lottery Gaming Corporation
- Responsible
Gambling Council
Ontario
U.S. Sites
- American Gaming Association
- National Council on Problem Gambling
- The
WAGER
Weekly research bulletin published by the Division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School
European Sites
- Association d’aide
au joueur et à sa famille
France (in French only) - Centre de prévention
du jeu excessif
Switzerland (in French only) - European State Lottery and Toto Association
Switzerland - International Council on Alcohol and other Addictions
Switzerland
Australian Sites
Last update: March 10, 2009
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