NCRG To Provide Media With Daily Online Report From Conference On Gambling And Addiction

Nov 30, 2004

The National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG) will debut an online daily conference report, or blog, for the media during its fifth annual NCRG Conference on Gambling and Addiction, which offers a comprehensive examination of international responsible gaming issues from the public policy, industry, legal and scientific perspectives.

The daily report will allow reporters unable to attend the event the ability to obtain information on the latest addictions research presented at the conference as well as understand the implications of this new research on public policy and industry initiatives related to responsible gaming. The report will include summaries of key sessions and contact information for session speakers from the previous day of the conference and allow the media to send an e-mail request for more detailed information on a particular subject matter. A link to the daily report will be delivered to reporters via e-mail each morning from Monday, Dec. 6 through Wednesday, Dec. 8.

  • Highlights of the conference report will include summaries of sessions dealing with:
  • The potential links between addictions
  • Regulating gaming and its potential health consequences in a global economy
  • Health risks for casino employees
  • Problem gambling issues among Native American communities
  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for gambling disorders
  • What genetics and brain scans are telling us about gambling addiction
  • Addiction in an age of terrorism and social stress

The fifth annual NCRG Conference on Gambling and Addiction, scheduled for Dec. 5 – 7 at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders, a program at Harvard Medical School’s Division on Addictions. More than 300 researchers, treatment providers, public health officials, regulators and industry representatives are expected to attend this year’s event.

If you would prefer not to receive the daily conference report, please send request to Brooke_Shannon@TheWadeGroupInc.com.

The NCRG, the only national organization devoted exclusively to public education about and funding of peer-reviewed research on disordered gambling, was established in 1996. The NCRG supports the finest peer-reviewed basic and applied research on gambling disorders; encourages the application of new research findings to improve prevention, diagnostic intervention and treatment strategies; and enhances public awareness of pathological and youth gambling. To date, the casino industry and related businesses have committed more than $13 million to this effort, and the NCRG has issued more than $8 million in support of groundbreaking research on gambling disorders. In 2000, the NCRG established the Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders at Harvard Medical School’s Division on Addictions. For more information, visitwww.ncrg.org.

The Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders is a program of the Division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School. In accordance with the Harvard University name policy, the Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders should not be referred to as the “Harvard Institute…” or the “Harvard Medical School Institute…” For more information about the use of the Harvard name,visithttp://www.hms.harvard.edu/fa/use_of_the_Harvard_name.html.

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