Editorial: Gambling, stigma, suicidality, and the internalization of the 'responsible gambling' mantra

Angela Rintoul; Virve Marionneau; Charles Livingstone; Janne Nikkinen; Chebiwot Kipsaina

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1214531

Editorial: Gambling, stigma, suicidality, and the internalization of the 'responsible gambling' mantra

Front Psychiatry. 2023 Jun 1:14:1214531. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1214531. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Angela Rintoul^{1

2}, Virve Marionneau³, Charles Livingstone², Janne Nikkinen³, Chebiwot Kipsaina^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Health Innovation and Transformation Centre, Research and Innovation, Federation University, Churchill, VIC, Australia.
² Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
³ Centre for Research on Addiction, Control, and Governance, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴ Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: commercial determinants of health; discourse; framing; gambling; harm reduction; responsible gambling; suicide prevention.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

AR has received seed grant funding from Federation University and is currently funded through a Suicide Prevention Australia post-doctoral research fellowship. VM and JN are currently been funded by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health [based on Section 52 of the Finnish Lotteries Act (1047/2001), Ministry charges the cost of research from gambling monopoly operator] and the Academy of Finland (project 349589 Commercial determinants of harm in digital gambling). CL has received funding from the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, the (former) Victorian Gambling Research Panel, and the South Australian Independent Gambling Authority (the funds for which were derived from hypothecation of gambling tax revenue to research purposes), from the Australian and New Zealand School of Government and the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, and from non-government organizations for research into multiple aspects of poker machine gambling, including regulatory reform, existing harm minimization practices, and technical characteristics of gambling forms. He has received travel and co-operation grants from the Alberta Problem Gambling Research Institute, the Finnish Institute for Public Health, the Finnish Alcohol Research Foundation, the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Committee, the Turkish Red Crescent Society, and the Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand. He was a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council funded project researching mechanisms of influence on government by the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries, and is a CI on an ARC project researching expenditure patterns on alcohol, tobacco and gambling. He has undertaken consultancy research for local governments and non-government organizations in Australia and the UK seeking to restrict or reduce the concentration of poker machines and gambling impacts, and was a member of the Australian government's Ministerial Expert Advisory Group on Gambling in 2010-11. He is a member of the Lancet Public Health Commission into gambling, and of the World Health Organization expert group on gambling and gambling harm.