Research

Here you will find details of the latest gambling research. If you would like to comment on any of our articles or would like to pledge your support to Gambling Watch UK, please get in touch via the contact page.

Latest Research Articles

Gambling is addictive

Thursday 03 January 2013

A summary It may still be difficult for some people to accept that an activity such as gambling, which is not a drug, can be addictive. But the idea that addiction is confined to drug addiction rests on an outdated concept...

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People with Gambling Problems are Making a Massive Contribution to Gambling Profits

Friday 24 August 2012

The Channel 4 Dispatches TV programme shown on 6th August included a first public airing of some alarming figures about the amounts of money being spent on different forms of gambling by people with gambling problems. The...

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The Geographical Location of Gambling Machines

Thursday 01 March 2012

The First Study to be Carried out in Britain. A report is available online of the first study ever to be carried out in Britain which has examined how gambling machines are distributed across the country and how the concentration of...

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Why Gambling Watch UK is needed?

Opportunities for gambling in Britain have increased very considerably in the last 20 years and were given further encouragement with the passing of the 2005 Gambling Act. The latest British Gambling Prevalence Survey, carried out in 2009/10, found that between one third and one half a million British adults experienced a gambling problem in the previous 12 months.
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Gambling Watch UK is an organisation, independent of Government or the gambling industry, which exists to question the present policy of support for the expansion of gambling in the UK and to propose alternative policies which would have the effect of preventing such expansion, which it's members believe is harmful from a public health perspective ...
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