Find resources related to suicide prevention and compulsive gamblers.
Advanced| American Policy Roundtable - Video lottery suicide - http://www.ohioroundtable.org/library/articles/casino/lotterysuicide.html Reports a suicide note left by a Quebec City-area gambling addict may be used in a proposed class-action suit against Loto-Quebec, a lawyer in the case said. - [Read more] |
| Casino Suicide Dramas Continue in Korea - http://www.authorized-online-casinos.com/20051228/casino_suicide_dramas_continue_in_dfe.jspx Read this article published by Authorized Online Casinos. - [Read more] |
| Casino Watch - Gambling Addiction Suicides - http://www.casinowatch.org/suicides/suicides.html Details events that have led compulsive gamblers to suicide. - [Read more] |
| CBC.ca - Gambling and Suicide - http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/main_youbetyourlife.html#suicide Reveals that The Canadian Community Health Survey - Mental Health and Well-being (2002) found that a significantly higher proportion of problem gamblers than non-problem gamblers had contemplated suicide in the past year (18% versus 3%). - [Read more] |
| CTV.ca - New statistics link gambling to suicide deaths - http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20030224/gambiling_suicide_030223?hub=TopStories&s_name=&no_ads= Notes two provinces have uncovered startling statistics linking gambling to suicides, raising new questions about the social costs of legalized betting in Canada. - [Read more] |
| Does legalized gambling elevate the risk of suicide? - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12079036&dopt=Abstract Read an abstract of this study published by the NCBI that addresses a possible link between suicide and casino gambling. - [Read more] |
| Gamblers and Suicide Ideation - http://www.abgaminginstitute.ualberta.ca/pdfs/suicide.pdf Offers a collection of resources related to suicidal thinking and gambling. - [Read more] |
| Gambling With Suicide - http://www.kolotv.com/news/headlines/1560186.html News item reports that the state of Nevada approved a suicide prevention program that allots 170-thousand dollars for two people to start a suicide prevention program. - [Read more] |
| NCALG - Getting Started with Basic Gambling Facts - http://www.ncalg.org/Gambilng%20Inside%20Story.htm Notes a study of addicted gamblers revealed, between 20% and 30% of the respondents made actual suicide attempts. No other addictive population has had as high a prevalence for attempts. - [Read more] |
| Online Casino News - Internet gambling blamed for suicide - http://www.onlinecasinonews.com/ocnv2_1/article/Article.asp?id=1150 Reports that a UK man who became addicted to gambling at Internet casinos committed suicide after amassing debts of over £53,000 ($72,820). - [Read more] |
| Pathological gambling and suicidality: an analysis of severity and lethality - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=12710544 Read an abstract of this study to systematically investigate the nature of suicidal behavior among treatment-seeking pathological gamblers and its relationship to gambling characteristics and depression. - [Read more] |
| Problem Gamblers Assume Unexpected Risk - Suicide - http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/38/22/24 Joan Arehart-Treichel reveals problem gamblers may be at high risk for committing suicide, especially if they seek residential treatment. Substance abuse, high impulsivity, and comorbidity are hallmarks of problem-gambler suicide attempters. - [Read more] |
| Problem Gambling - http://www.wesleymission.org.au/publications/r&d/suicide.htm#problem Shares problem gambling, with its potentially devastating impacts on the finances, personal lives and relationships of the affected gamblers, is related to heightened anxiety, depression, and in extreme cases, to suicide. See the chart. - [Read more] |
| Responsible Gambling Council (Ontario) - Newscan - http://www.responsiblegambling.org/articles/060603_23.pdf Discover this resource, in PDF format, that details coroners across Canada have agreed to record whenever gambling is cited as a factor in suicides. - [Read more] |
| Study links gambling, suicide - http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1997/Dec-17-Wed-1997/news/6615715.html Notes that suicide rates in Las Vegas, Reno and Atlantic City, N.J., are higher than other cities. Read for details. - [Read more] |
| Suicide attempts among veterans seeking treatment for pathological gambling - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14628978&dopt=Abstract Shares that studies of problem gamblers have found that completed suicide, suicide attempts, and suicidal ideation are common outcomes related to gambling behavior - [Read more] |