Journal of Gambling Issues, October 2006 [journal title]

Volume 18 (October 2006) of the Journal of Gambling Issues is a special issue on gambling in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Articles include:

• Introduction: Gambling issues and problems in the Nordic countries
  
• Nordic gambling markets and the possibilities for state level control
  
• An overview of prevalence surveys of problem and pathological gambling in the Nordic countries
  
• Prevalence estimates of gambling and problem gambling among 13 to 15 year old adolescents in Reykjavik: An examination of correlates of problem gambling and different accessibility to electronic gaming machines in Iceland
  
• Chasing the criteria: Comparing SOGS-RA and the Lie/Bet screen to assess prevalence of problem gambling and "at risk" gambling among adolescents
  
• Swedish machine gamblers from an ethnographic perspective
  
• Treatment of pathological gambling in the Nordic countries: Where are we, and where to go now?
  
• Putting gambling problems on the agenda—some Norwegian experiences