The second annual Problem Gambling Prevention and Treatment Conference is scheduled Monday and Tuesday at the National Center for Employee Development in Norman. The conference is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the Oklahoma Association for Problem and Compulsive Gambling.
SALEM, Ore. With the state getting ready to offer electronic slot machines, the 2005 Legislature will come under pressure to fully fund gambling addiction treatment programs that could become a lot busier. Under orders from Gov. Ted Kulongoski, the Oregon Lottery is making preparations for a July 1 startup for the new video slot machine games, which are expected to boost net revenues from state gambling by $120 million.
With Pennsylvania moving full speed ahead to legalized gambling, one local organization is trying to understand how this may impact area youth. Gateway Rehabilitation Center recently conducted a survey of 419 patients to determine the seriousness of gambling problems and addictions among young people. Among the study's findings is that nearly one third of adolescents in treatment showed some degree of a gambling addiction, while only 19 percent of adults showed any signs of addiction. They also learned that 25 percent of adolescents studied favored Internet gambling, most adolescents looked forward to legalized gambling and usually turned to relatives, friends and theft to cover gambling debts. "While much study still needs to be done, it would appear that gambling is connected to drug ...
The project ro integrate problem gambling services into the DPH/BSAS treatment system began in 1988, with one DPH/BSAScontracted agency offering problem gambling counseling services (out of more than 200 eligible agencies DPH/BSAS contracted with), in 1998, DPH/BSAS contracted with 16 substance abuse agencies for problem gambling services, where at least one counselor at each location had attended Council trainings on treating gambling disorders.
In the history of addressing addictions, gambling disorder-related research and treatment ...
Laska completes training course WOOSTER -- Marty Laska, LPCC, LICDC, director of employee assistance programs for the SourceOne Group, completed training in Rational Hypnotherapy from the National Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapists. Laska, who has more than 25 years of experience in treating mental health problems and addiction disorders, also has training in smoking cessation and the treatment of problem gambling.
... and to address the problem publicly.16 Treatment and therapy programs for alcoholics are well defin...
...Since the initiation of methadone treatment of heroin addicts (1991), the number of heavy and ... OF PROBLEMS AND DISORDERS CAUSED BY GAMBLING. Zoran Zoricic, Vladimir Gaspar, Danijel Crnkovic,...
As a nation, we should be bolder in our "war on drugs" by dismantling that fiasco altogether. We need to accept drug use for what it is: a harmful habit, but not a crime. It's a dangerous addiction just like alcoholism, tobacco dependency, or gambling. Our goal should be rehabilitation through treatment - not incarceration. Further, the billions of dollars we continue to spend on drug law enforcement should be recognized for what it is - a political scandal. As it is now, organized crime and vicious street gangs control drug trafficking, which results in daily horrors of death and mayhem.
PEORIA -- A former Chicago police officer turned bank robber says his life spun out of control after he was fired from the department. Vondale Sullivan, who was sentenced Friday to a minimum prison term and addiction treatment, told Chief U.S. District Judge Joe B. McDade he developed a gambling addiction that led him to hold up a Normal bank in August.
... of gambling impacts such as gambling addiction treatment, and the state's rainy day reserve fund....
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