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The professional football player Kyle Lafferty provided more details about his rehabilitation from gambling addiction. Earlier this month, he used his official Twitter account to reveal that he celebrated a major landmark in his battle against problem gambling, as he managed to stay “clean” of his gambling addiction for one year. Now, the 31-year-old striker who has never scored in European football shared that he was ready to clean his reputation and reach another important landmark for him in the Rangers’ match against Villarreal on Thursday night. As Casino Guardian…

The Labour Party pledged to ban gambling operators from TV advertising during live sports events and to impose a new compulsory levy on such companies in order to raise more money to fund problem gamblers treatment, should it win the next general election. As expected, the party unveiled a list of proposals days before its annual conference which is to be held in Liverpool as part of its future policy to tighten up the measures on gambling regulation across the country. Gambling is Britain’s hidden epidemic – that’s why we’ll…

Information has emerged that the Labour Party may ban the use of credit cards for gambling activities as part of the Government’s crackdown on the industry. If the Government proceeds with the measure aimed at tackling constantly increasing gambling addiction rates, this would affect billions of transactions which are carried out in the industry on an annual basis. As revealed by The Guardian, deputy leader Tom Watson is to publish the conclusions of the Labour Party’s year-long gambling regulations review by the end of the week. The full list of…

A recent Australian study claims that loot boxes and gambling are connected, which is a really bad news for the proponents of the in-game features and video gaming. The Environment and Communications References Committee (ECRC) started a research in video game loot boxes in June this year. Only a couple of months later, the group has revealed the research’s findings after almost 7,500 people were examined by Dr. David Zendle and Dr. Paul Cairns who led the survey. A public hearing into gaming micro-transactions for chance-based items is being held…

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has become one of the gambling regulators across the world which are engaged in the investigation of the unclear lines between gambling and video games. To date, an agreement has been signed between more than a dozen European and US-based regulatory bodies, at a time when their concerns regarding the possible risks which video games and gambling could pose to children have been constantly rising. As shared by the CEO of the UK Gambling Commission, the unlicensed websites which provide skins betting can literally emerge…

As part of the ongoing Budget talks, the Irish political grouping Independent Alliance has urged the country’s Government to double the existing gambling tax and to introduce a property tax waiver for elderly people who live on fixed incomes. The Alliance, which comprises of Finian McGrath, John Halligan, Shane Ross and Kevin Boxer Moran, explained that a possible gambling tax increase from 1% to 2% is expected to bring €50 million. They further shared that part of that money would be used to fund addiction services for Irish residents. In…

The Bishop of St Albans has once again warned against the constantly rising number of gambling adverts ahead of his question in the House of Lords. The Rt Rev. Alan Smith said that gambling advertising is “out of control” and called for the UK Government to pay more attention to the problem. In the light of the upcoming start of the parliamentary session after the summer recess, he reminded the authorities of the World Cup, and more precisely about the way British children got bombarded with gambling adverts over the…

In April 2018, Australian citizens were called the biggest gamblers in the world, as they lost almost AU$24 billion a year on gambling activities, with them generating the largest gambling losses per capita worldwide. The Queensland Government Statistician’s Office released information about the gambling losses of Australian people by categories for the 2015/2016 period. According to the state government office’s data, local people lost more than AU$12 billion on gaming machines, making so-called pokies the most preferred form of gambling in the country. Electronic gaming machines are by far the…

Responsible gambling has been one of the milestones of the Australian Government’s gambling policy for almost three decades now. The concept emerged as an invention of the gambling industry and has been developed over the years, at a time when gambling was legalised and expanded on a global scale. This provided the local gambling sector with the chance to find a way around stricter regulation, but unfortunately, it turned out to be an ineffective strategy as far as gambling-related harm minimisation is concerned. All existing casinos in Australia, as well…

A recent study into the services offered within the Irish mental health system showed that the Health Service Executive (HSE) does not currently offer enough treatment services which are especially aimed at problem gamblers. According to the results of the research, which were published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, there is only one body which offers adequate gambling addiction services. The leading psychiatrist Colin O’Gara, who heads the addiction services department at Saint John of God Hospital in Dublin, revealed that the lack of enough gambling…