Friday, April 26, 2013

Responsible gambling and the spectacle of the 'problem gambler'

Medical Xpress
Institutions that make big money out of gambling – such as governments, casinos, clubs and pubs – are fond of telling us how much they care about problem gambling. Clubs Australia (the peak body for the institutions where most of Australia's poker machines are located) sees itself as part of the solution – although it also sees the problem as "a small minority" of poker machine gamblers.