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		From the Editor The second issue of the Electronic Journal of Gambling Issues (EJGI) offers new insights into a range of gambling topics. The Feature article describes why gambling becomes a problem for some youth, the Research article uncovers the mysteries of randomness and how we often misunderstand it, and the Clinic article explains how attention-deficit hyperactive disorder can be involved in problem gambling. The First Person Accounts section presents a lively rant on e-trading as gambling and the Review section features an informative video on problem gambling. Please check the Letter to the Editor and the Calendar. If you missed the first issue you can access it through the Archive. We hope you find this issue interesting and that you tell your friends and colleagues about EJGI. If you would like to receive a live-link to each future issue of the EJGI, please go to the bottom of any article and click on "Subscribe to our automated announcement list." You'll receive an email message with a live link to every new issue. At this early stage in the life of the EJGI, it seems like the right time to thank everyone who helped begin this e-journal. Geoff Noonan, now with the Canadian Foundation for Compulsive Gambling (Ontario), was a strong presence in the beginning and so were Andrew Johnson, Nina Littman-Sharp, Robert Murray, Wayne Skinner, Tony Toneatto and Nigel Turner. We thank Mara Korkola and Alan Tang for their expertise in creating an attractive and smooth functioning Web site. We’re excited about these first few issues – and we’re still growing. We’d appreciate your feedback on what you would like to read. We're also pleased to include our first official link to a related Web site - the Youth Gambling Research & Treatment Clinic (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) at http://www.education.mcgill.ca/gambling: Here you'll find useful information, a self-quiz, treatment and research updates and FAQs. Our plan is to create an entire section for useful and relevant links in the very near future. - Phil Lange   Statement of Purpose The Electronic Journal of Gambling Issues (EJGI) 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 EJGI 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 from researchers and clinicians, people involved in gambling as players, and family and friends of gamblers. Editor Phil Lange   Editorial Board Andrew Johnson, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Nina Littman-Sharp, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Robert Murray, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Wayne Skinner, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Tony Toneatto, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Nigel Turner, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Reviewers Peter Adams, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioural Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZL Alex Blaszczynski, Impulse Control Research Clinic, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Gerry Cooper, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Sudbury, Ontario, CAN Jeff Derevensky, Youth Gambling Research & Treatment Clinic, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CAN Pat Erickson, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Jackie Ferris, Ferris Research, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Ron Frisch, Problem Gambling Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Ontario, CAN Rina Gupta, Youth Gambling Research & Treatment Clinic, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CAN Len Henrickson, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, CAN Roger Horbay, Game Planit Interactive Corp., Toronto, Ontario, CAN David Korn, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Igor Kusyszyn, Dept. of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Robert Ladouceur, École de Psychologie, Université Laval, Laval, Quebec, CAN Samuel Law, Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA Geoff Noonan, Canadian Foundation on Compulsive Gambling (Ontario), Toronto, Ontario, CAN Alan Ogborne, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN María Prieto, Dept. of Psychological Intervention, University P. Comillas, Madrid, ESP Robin Room, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, SWE Lisa Root, The Niagara Alcohol and Drug Assessment Service, St. Catherines, Ontario, CAN Randy Stinchfield, University of Minnesota Medical School, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA   William Thompson, Department of Public Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada USA Rachel Volberg, Gemini Research, Ltd., Northampton, Massachusetts, USA Keith Whyte, National Council on Problem Gambling, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Harold Wynne, Wynne Resources Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, CAN Martin Zack, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Design Staff Graphic Designer: Mara Korkola, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN HTML Markup: Alan Tang, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CAN Copyeditors Kelly Lamorie and Megan MacDonald, double space Editorial Services, Toronto, Ontario, CAN
		issue 2 – august 2000

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