Canadian gaming attitudes [survey]

The Canadian Gaming Association hired the survey firm PMG Consulting to poll Canadian attitudes toward gaming. Results are available in an April 26th media release as well as in the document "National Gaming Monitor: Summary of Findings" (2006, April).

AGRI Conference 2006 [Presentations]

Presentations from the recently completed 5th Annual Alberta Conference on Gambling Research "Social and economic costs and benefits of gambling" which took take place on Friday, April 21 & Saturday, April 22, 2006 at the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta are now available.

Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada [highlights report]

Just released today is a report from the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) entitled "The Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada 2002 Highlights" (2006, March). The report will likely be of interest to gambling researchers and especially so to those estimating gambling's socioeconomic costs and benefits.

European Union Gambling Services [draft research report]

The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law has posted on its web site the draft report "Study of Gambling Services in the Internal Market of the European Union: Draft Final Report" (2006, April 24). It was suggested by Dr. Bill Eadington at the recently completed AGRI 2006 conference that this massive report may eventually rank right up there in terms of importance with the Australian Productivity Commision report, Budd report (UK), and the U.S. National Gambling Impact Study Commission.

Discovery 2006 [conference presentations]

The Responsible Gambling Council's Discovery 2006 conference took place in early April in Toronto, Ontario. Most of the conference presentations themselves are available in the RGCO e-Library.

New issue of Journal of Gambling Issues [open-access journal]

Issue 16 (April 2006) of the Journal of Gambling Issues is now freely available online. Included is an interesting article on popular historical gambling game called Faro... "Faro: A 19th-century gambling craze."

Youth Gambling in Alberta [survey report]

The report Youth gambling in Alberta: The Alberta Youth Experience Survey 2002 was published in 2005 by the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC). It focuses on the gambling behaviour of Alberta adolescents in grades 7 to 12. Also included in the report is a literature review related to youth gambling.

Gaming Law Review - April 2006 [online journal]

The April 2006 issue of Gaming Law Review is now available online to subscribers. Original articles include:

• Investment or Conspiracy? Legal Concerns About Investing in the Online Gambling Industry By Lawrence G. Walters
  
• Report from New Orleans: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Casinos By Kathryn Hashimoto
  
• Gaming at Florida Pari-Mutuels: Racinos Are a Sure Bet for the Sunshine State By Alan B. Koslow, David S. Romanik
  
• The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: Why Tribes Can Build Casinos Off the Reservation By Carter W. Hick
  
• Video Gambling in Brazil: Wax Your Boards! Wave Comin'!By Sébastien Gariépy

College Student Gambling [self-archived journal article]

The American Psychological Association (APA) journals permit authors to self-archive their journal articles on their personal web sites or in "institutional repositories."

The article "Does Learning About the Mathematics of Gambling Change Gambling Behavior?" by Robert Williams and Dennis Connolly appears in the March 2006 issue of the APA journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors and has been self-archived in the Alberta Gaming Research Institute's DSpace community which is hosted by the University of Calgary.

You'll note that this particular copy of the article is not the "official copy of record" and does not contain the same page formatting as the official APA version. It does, however, contain the final version of the content that was submitted and accepted for publication in the journal.

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, March 2006 [journal article]

The March 2006 issue of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors includes four articles related to gambling. They include:

• Heart Rate Increase to Alcohol Administration and Video Lottery Terminal Play Among Probable Pathological Gamblers and Nonpathological Gamblers. By Stewart, Sherry H.; Peterson, Jordan B.; Collins, Pamela; Eisnor, Shondalee; Ellery, Michael
  
• Does Learning About the Mathematics of Gambling Change Gambling Behavior?By Williams, Robert J.; Connolly, Dennis
  
• Use of Warning Messages to Modify Gambling Beliefs and Behavior in a Laboratory Investigation.By Floyd, Kim; Whelan, James P.; Meyers, Andrew W.
  
• Convergent Validity of Measures of Cognitive Distortions, Impulsivity, and Time Perspective With Pathological Gambling.By MacKillop, James; Anderson, Emily J.; Castelda, Bryan A.; Mattson, Richard E.; Donovick, Peter J.
  

Parkinson disease treatment & gambling [conference abstract]

"Parkinson Disease Treatments Show Risk for Developing Gambling Problems" is the title of a press release from the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. It notes that some treatments for Parkinson disease may present an increased risk of developing pathological gambling in patients. This is according to a study presented on April 6th by Oksana Suchowersky, MD, a neuroscience researcher at the University of Calgary.

Relocation of Casino de Montréal [committee report]

The publication Interdepartmental Committee Responsible for Assessing the Plan to Relocate the Casino de Montréal: Report (2006, March) contains an assessment of the feasibility and consequences of Loto-Québec's proposal undertaken the Quebec Ministre des Finances.

It is my understanding that plans for relocating the Montreal casino have already been nixed.

Study of Casino Workers [research overview]

A description of a study of casino workers undertaken by the GMB Union in Scotland (2006, March) has found that:

• Three-quarters of croupiers suffer from recurrent back and neck ache
• One in five reports early signs of carpel tunnel syndrome
• 79% complain of tiredness with sleep disturbance and chronic fatigue commonplace
• Stress and violence at work is growing compared to the last survey in 2003 with the number of staff experiencing assaults trebling. The incidence of racial harassment doubling and as many as 40% of women workers surveyed reporting sexual harassment

The Education of a Poker Player [essay]

The March-April 2006 issue of Harvard Magazine contains an article entitled "Education of a Poker Player" which was written by Aaron Brown. This essay was adapted from a chapter in his recently release book The Poker Face of Wall Street.

Australian Framework on Problem Gambling [brochure]

The various Australian State and Territory governments put together the Ministerial Council on Gambling in Australia to support further work in reducing the negative social impacts of problem gambling. The resultant "National Framework on Problem Gambling 2004-2008" (2005) provides a summary of several key focus areas.