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Gambling Problems in Youth - Theoretical and Applied Perspectives (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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Gambling Problems in Youth - Theoretical and Applied Perspectives (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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Howard J. Shaffer, Ph. D. More than 20 years ago, I first noted
that young people in North America were growing up in a context of
legalized gambling for their entire lifetime. By the 1980s, for
young people, gambling had become an average and expectable part of
the social landscape. Amid legal opportunities to gamble in all but
two of the United States and with illicit opportunities to gamble
in every state, gambling is now ubiquitous in America. With few
social sa- tions to limit a young person's interest in
gambling-like their adult co- terparts-young people now gamble in
larger numbers and for seemingly higher stakes. Gradually,
gambling-related problems became more visible for young people and
the culture slowly but increasingly took notice. By the late 1990s,
every sector of American and Canadian society had started to c-
sider the effects of legalized gambling on youth. For different
reasons, r- resentatives of the gambling and health care industries
led the movement to prevent youthful gambling and reconcile
existing problems whenever p- sible. Scientists also recognized
that there was much to be learned by stu- ing young gamblers.
Toward the end of the 20th century, there was a rapid increase in
gambling research focusing on developmental issues; half of what is
known about gambling emerged during the 1990s. This volume
represents an important event in the continuing growth of a field.
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