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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
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- 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
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- Randy Stinchfield, University of Minnesota Medical School,
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- William Thompson, Department of Public Administration,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada USA
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- 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
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