ReviewHarm reduction journal2023
Gambling harm prevention and harm reduction in online environments: a call for action.
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- Online prize draws and competitions: Gambling products outside the United Kingdom regulatory framework.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Professionals' Perspectives On the Role of Advanced Technologies in Responsible Gambling.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Impulsivity, Cognitive Distortions, and Problem Gambling Among Spanish Adults Who Gamble: Exploring the Moderating Role of Gambling Self-Efficacy.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Dark patterns in online gambling: A scoping review and classification of deceptive design practices.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
- Deriving lower-risk gambling limits from data collected in four cross-sectional Finnish surveys.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
- A Prospective Study of Mental Health in Relation to Online Gambling One-year Later in a Large Cohort of Adolescents in Canada.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Links Between Gambling and Academic Performance Among Undergraduate College Students: A Scoping Review.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Article
- Engagement in New Gambling Practices and its Association with Gambling Disorder, Impulsivity, and Cognitive Distortions: Findings from a Nationally Representative Sample of Spanish Gamblers.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Article
- A portrait of online gambling: a look at a transformation amid a pandemic.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Online gambling forums as a potential target for harm reduction: an exploratory natural language processing analysis of a reddit.com forum.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Risk Factors of At-Risk/Problem Gambling Among Young Adult Spanish Students.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2025Article
- Limit-setting in online gambling: a comparative policy review of European approaches.Harm reduction journal · 2025Review
- Promoting safer gambling through social norms and goal setting: A qualitative process analysis of participants' experiences in the EROGamb 2.0 feasibility trial.Internet interventions · 2024Article
- Probing the Role of Digital Payment Solutions in Gambling Behavior: Preliminary Results From an Exploratory Focus Group Session With Problem Gamblers.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- Availability restrictions and mandatory precommitment in land-based gambling: effects on online substitutes and total consumption in longitudinal sales data.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Public health approaches to gambling: a global review of legislative trends.The Lancet. Public health · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundGambling is increasingly offered and consumed in online and mobile environments. The digitalisation of the gambling industry poses new challenges on harm prevention and harm reduction. The digital environment differs from traditional, land-based gambling environments. It increases many risk-factors in gambling, including availability, ease-of-access, but also game characteristics such as speed and intensity. Furthermore, data collected on those gambling in digital environments makes gambling offer increasingly personalised and targeted. MAIN
resultsThis paper discusses how harm prevention and harm reduction efforts need to address gambling in online environments. We review existing literature on universal, selective, and indicated harm reduction and harm prevention efforts for online gambling and discuss ways forward. The discussion shows that there are several avenues forward for online gambling harm prevention and reduction at each of the universal, selective, and indicated levels. No measure is likely to be sufficient on its own and multi-modal as well as multi-level interventions are needed. Harm prevention and harm reduction measures online also differ from traditional land-based efforts. Online gambling providers utilise a variety of strategies to enable, market, and personalise their products using data and the wider online ecosystem.
conclusionWe argue that these same tools and channels should also be used for preventive work to better prevent and reduce the public health harms caused by online gambling.
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