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Trust Tackles Problem Gambling

With the results from the UK’s latest Gambling Prevalence Study in some organizations are seizing on recent media attitudes toward the online casino industry as a way to precipitate more funding for problem gambling programs. The Responsibility in Gaming Trust (RIGT) was formed as a way to assess, research, treat, and prevent gambling addictions in the UK. And though the media attention preceding the release of the Prevalence Study was unjustly negative (and had many online casinos companies worried about further government action and regulations), the Trust is still using the current media focus on problem gambling as a way to raise additional millions of dollars to go toward preventing future gambling related problems in the UK.

RIGT is committed to making a difference in the prevention, treatment, and education of those affected by the gambling industry – both online casino and land-based gambling. The UK’s new pressure for the online casinos industry to act socially responsible is actually right in line with the attitude of those at RIGT as well. A Chairman at RIGT, John Greenway, comments, “Just treating those who already have a problem is doing too little, too late. We need to take a more preventative approach and educate people about the risks of gambling.”

More and more online casinos and other gambling organizations have alternatives to the older methods of monitoring internet gambling. Recently announced “opt-out” programs are coupled with advanced computer technology that recognizes and flags internet gamblers in at all stages of gambling addiction. These new programs put a lot of responsibility on the online casino companies to take the initiative and outlay the money and manpower to support problem gambling programs.

RIGT notes that though the percentage of problem gamblers at the online casinos has not increased, the numbers are still too high and should be controlled. Greenway continues, "We are already spending ten times more on tackling problem gambling than in 2000, and we had previously called for a further doubling of our income by 2010. But we feel that even that is not enough."