"Responsible gambling" refers to a range of strategies, initiatives, and activities introduced by gambling regulators, policymakers, and industry operators to reduce gambling-related harms. There is an absence of agreement about the definition of responsible gambling among these parties, and stakeholders' experiences reflect varied and often conflicting positions about the development, implementation, and maintenance of existing responsible gambling programs. Complicating these issues further, there is little empirical evidence supporting the current crop of responsible gambling activities. Consequently, there is a pressing need to bring together key similarities and differences associated with disparate stakeholder groups.Responsible Gambling: Primary Stakeholder Perspectives will inform and better ground both current and future debates focused on the topic of responsible gambling and its intended outcomes. Chapters address responsible gambling from the perspective of five groups of complementary stakeholders: scientists/researchers; clinicians; gambling operators; public policy makers/regulators; and recovering gamblers. Contributors address responsible gambling through the lens of the Reno Model, an approach that emphasizes the importance of stakeholders working together and using evidence-based methods to reduce gambling-related harms. Building upon and expanding the Reno Model and addressing conflicts and ethical compromises so that these programs can achieve their intended objectives (reducing the worldwide rate of gambling-related harms), Responsible Gambling will be of value to scientists, clinicians, policy makers, regulators, and industry operators interested in responsible gambling strategies and activities.

ForewordPhil SatrePreface1. Responsible Gambling and Its Stakeholders: An OverviewHoward J. Shaffer, Alexander Blaszczynski, Robert Ladouceur, Peter Collins, and Davis FongSTAKEHOLDERSACADEMICS AND SCIENTISTS2. Should we do away with Responsible Gambling? Perspectives from Research ScientistsDebi A. LaPlante, Heather M. Gray, and Sarah E. Nelson3. Responsible Gambling: An Academic PerspectivePaul Delfabbro & Daniel KingCLINICIANS AND PUBLIC HEALTH WORKERS4. Gambling Expansion and Its Association with Disordered Gambling TrendsKen C. Winters and Nathan Smith5. Responsible Gambling: Public Health and Social Justice Considerations to Inform Research, Policy, and PracticeVíctor Ortiz and Haner Hernández6. Responsible Gambling: A Problem Gambler's PerspectiveJodie Nealley and Amanda Winters7. Responsible Gambling: Consumer and Reformed Problem Gambler PerspectivesGabriele Byrne8. Are Responsible Gambling Programs Important? More Importantly, Do They Work?Arnie Wexler and Sheila WexlerINDUSTRY OPERATORS9. Responsible Gambling: From an International Gambling Industry Stakeholder PerspectiveJoachim HaeuslerORGANIZATIONS10. Responsible Gambling: Organizational PerspectiveChristine Reilly11. Responsible Gambling from a Non-profit PerspectiveJamie Wiebe and Jon KellyPOLICY MAKERS, REGULATORS, AND LAWYERS12. The Status of Responsible Gaming: A Massachusetts PerspectiveStephen P. Crosby and Mark Vander Linden13. A Gambling Lawyer's Perspective on Responsible GamblingSimon Planzer & Martin LyckaAfterwordPeter Collins