The 21st century has brought substantial changes to the manners in which people gamble and the types of things on which people gamble. These changes are particularly stark in the United States, where, over the past five years, sports betting has gone from being legal in only one location to being legal throughout the majority…
New research from professors at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and the University of New Mexico has found that sports bettors are more likely to indulge in binge drinking than people who do not gamble. The research forms part of a two-year body of research carried out by the Behavioral Addictions Lab at…
UK player harm charity GambleAware has called for public health warnings on gambling adverts, as research shows that messaging over gambling risks is not cutting through with the public. Researchers found the UK industry’s ‘Take Time To Think’ slogan was inadequate and should be replaced with the following messages: GambleAware Chief Communications Officer Alexia Clifford…
Dan Waugh of Regulus Partners continues his groundbreaking series of articles that expose the myth-making around gambling and misuse of statistics
University of Bristol academics Raffaello Rossi and Agnes Nairn have released their second research paper on social media and gambling. This research paper focused on content marketing ie. content on social media that is not easily recognisable as marketing. “International advertising codes stipulate that advertising must be obviously identifiably as such,” write the authors. “Irrespective…
This study of 12–17 year olds in Australia investigated young people’s exposure to celebrity and social media influencer marketing for gambling and the influence they perceived this marketing had on young people’s gambling attitudes. Key findings: This study highlights the importance of a comprehensive approach to preventing underage exposure to gambling marketing, that not only…
The first academic paper on the use of psychedelics to assist gambling addicts has been published by academics from Universities in Gibraltar, Budapest and Amsterdam. The paper studies the use of psychedelic-assisted therapy to deal with other mental disorders and concludes that it could be used to deal with gambling disorder. “This paper is setting…
Most disordered and lower-risk gamblers will never seek formal treatment due to the stigma and shame surrounding gambling. Online self-help forums are a popular alternative way for gamblers to anonymously seek help from others. Here, the researchers leverage recent developments in natural language processing to analyze posts on a UK-based online self-help gambling forum. Using…
This evaluation explores the pilot implementation of the Residential Rehabilitation Service forGambling Disorder with Complex and Co-morbid Presentation. It provides early evidence aboutestablishing and delivering this new service, and of the outcomes of the service for the people itsupports. Key findings: There is a high level of need for this kind of support- This study…
The newly published scoping study – ‘LGBTQ+ People and Gambling Harms: A Scoping Review’ – was commissioned by GambleAware to build an understanding of the lived experience of gambling harm amongst the LGBTQ+ community in Great Britain. Researchers from the University of Brighton completed the study by analysing articles published between 2000 and 2023 on gambling harms…