What is it about?
Gambling is a popular global activity with increased products becoming available through the Internet. Excessive gambling among individuals result in harms being experienced across the full spectrum of gamblers, from minor harms to serious impacts affecting others. Tensions exist between governments and industry in applying responsible gambling strategies as this inevitably means a reduction in taxation and revenue. The challenge is how to reduce these tensions in attempting to minimize gambling-related harms.
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Why is it important?
Failure to adhere to principles of corporate responsibility and consumer protection by both governments and industry will challenge the social license to offer gambling products. Appropriate and transparent safeguards learnt from the tobacco and alcohol field, it is argued, can guide the conduct of gambling research. How this is achieved is a challenge.
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Responsible gambling is about assisting individuals to gamble within affordable levels. Many opinions are offered as to who assumes primary responsibility, many of which are based on misinterpretations of what is claimed or reflect ideological positions. The responsibility is shared by all involved; governments who set the gambling scene (what is legal and available), gambling product designers, gambling operators, community acceptance or rejection of products, and individuals. The ultimate decision to gamble is the individual's but the responsibility to provide safe environments and products is shared by all. The individual is not solely responsible as some have misinterpreted statements made in the literature.
Alexander Blaszczynski
University of Sydney
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This page is a summary of: Responsible gambling:The need for collaborative government, industry, community and consumer involvement, SUCHT - Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Praxis / Journal of Addiction Research and Practice, December 2018, Hogrefe Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1024/0939-5911/a000564.
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