The new reviews editor of the Journal of Gambling Issues:
Marianna Toce Gerstein

It is our pleasure to welcome Marianna Toce Gerstein as our reviews editor. She will help facilitate swifter publication of reviews and more reviews per issue. With her assistance, we will continue to offer reviews of books, educational materials, movies, plays, Web sites, DVDs, videos, and other media that we hope are of interest to the gambling studies community.

Marianna has a solid background in gambling research. In her current role as a doctoral student, she is studying how recovering problem gamblers in an on-line support group use language to model their identities and attempt to reshape those of newcomers to facilitate indoctrination into the group and, ultimately, abstinence from gambling. Prior to this work, she was a survey researcher for more than 8 years at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, where her main areas of study were problem gambling and substance abuse. Among other projects, she designed the questionnaire for the recent California problem gambling prevalence survey, worked on an NIAAA grant on gambling among women, and was involved in all phases of the 1999 national survey sponsored by the National Gambling Impact Study Commission.

We look forward to working with Marianna.

Phil Lange, editor, Journal of Gambling Issues
E-mail: Phil_Lange@camh.net

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Statement of purpose

The Journal of Gambling Issues (JGI) offers an Internet-based forum for developments in gambling-related research, policy and treatment as well as personal accounts about gambling and gambling behaviour. Through publishing peer-reviewed articles about gambling as a social phenomenon and the prevention and treatment of gambling problems, it is our aim is to help make sense of how gambling affects us all.

The JGI is published by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and is fully funded by the Ontario Substance Abuse Bureau of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. We welcome manuscripts submitted by researchers and clinicians, people involved in gambling as players, and family and friends of gamblers.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this journal do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Ethics and accountability

The Journal of Gambling Issues is a member of the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors and supports the Farmington Consensus statement on ethical standards in publishing:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sjp22/isaje/farmington.htm

Editor
Phil Lange

Editorial Board

Bruce Ballon, Peter Ferentzy, Nina Littman-Sharp, Robert Murray, Wayne Skinner, Tony Toneatto, Nigel E. Turner, and Martin Zack, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Advisory Board

Peter Adams, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioural Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
 

Will Bennis, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
 

Alex Blaszczynski, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
 

Jeffrey L. Derevensky, International Center for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviors, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
 

Mark Griffiths, Psychology Division, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, U.K.
 

David C. Hodgins, Dept. of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
 

Edward Kwan, Independent practice, Hong Kong, China
 

Ray McNeil, Nova Scotia Department of Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
 

Lia Nower, School of Social Welfare, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Misouri, U.S.A.
 

Nancy Petry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, U.S.A.
 

María Prieto, Dept. of Psychological Intervention, University P. Comillas, Madrid, Spain
 

Lusanda U.Z. Rataemane, National Gambling Board, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa
 

Gerda Reith, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
 

Cesar A. Sanchez-Bello, Pathological Gambling Section of Latin-American Psychiatric Association, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela
 

Målfrid Todal, Division of Psychiatry, St. Olav's Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
 

Rachel A. Volberg, Gemini Research, Ltd., Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
 

Monica L. Zilberman, Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 

Reviewers

Peter Adams, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioural Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
 

Alex Blaszczynski, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
 

Linda Chamberlain, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
 

Gerry Cooper, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
 

Jeff Derevensky, Youth Gambling Research & Treatment Clinic, Dept of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
 

William Eadington, Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.
 

Pat Erickson, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Jackie Ferris, Ferris Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

G. Ron Frisch, Problem Gambling Research Group, Dept of Psychology, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
 

Richard Govoni, Problem Gambling Research Group, Dept of Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
 

Mark Griffiths, Psychology Division, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, U.K.
 

Rina Gupta, Youth Gambling Research & Treatment Clinic, Dept of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
 

David C. Hodgins, Addiction Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
 

Roger Horbay, Game Planit Interactive Corp., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Alun C. Jackson, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, New South Wales, Australia
 

Durand Jacobs, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, U.S.A.
 

Jeffrey Kassinove, Dept of Psychology, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.A.
 

David Korn, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Igor Kusyszyn, Dept. of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Robert Ladouceur, École de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
 

Samuel Law, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Henry Lesieur, Dept of Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
 

Vanessa López-Viets, Dept of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
 

Ray MacNeil, Nova Scotia Department of Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
 

Virginia McGowan, Addictions Counselling Program, The University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
 

Goldie Millar, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Sally Monaghan, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
 

Daniela Penickova, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.
 

María Prieto, Dept. of Psychological Intervention, University P. Comillas, Madrid, Spain
 

Gerda Reith, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
 

Robin Room, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
 

Lisa Root, The Niagara Alcohol and Drug Assessment Service, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada
 

Richard J. Rosenthal, UCLA Gambling Studies Program, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
 

Loreen Rugle, Clinical and Research Services, Trimeridian, Inc., Carmel, Indiana, U.S.A.
 

Randy Stinchfield, University of Minnesota Medical School, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.
 

David Streiner, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

William Thompson, Dept. of Public Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
 

Marianna Toce-Gerstein, NORC at the University of Chicago, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
 

Lisa Vig, Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota, Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.A.
 

Rachel Volberg, Gemini Research, Ltd., Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
 

Keith Whyte, National Council on Problem Gambling, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
 

Jamie Wiebe, Responsible Gambling Council (Ontario), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Robert J. Williams, School of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
 

Harold Wynne, Wynne Resources Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
 

Reviews editor

Marianna Toce Gerstein, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
 

Design staff

Graphic designer: Mara Korkola, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada