School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.
Addiction. 2012 Sep;107(9):1556-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03802.x.
The aim of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the development and current status of gambling in Australia.
The paper examines the history and current status of gambling in Australia with a particular focus on the prevalence of problem gambling in the community and developments in policy and treatment services.
The paper highlights the contradictory role of State governments as both providers of treatment services as well as agents for the liberalization for gambling. It also shows how the notion of 'addiction' is conceptualized in Australian research and treatment services, including the preference for harm-based and public health approaches. Such perspectives view problem gambling as having multiple pathways and determinants that extend beyond the pathology of individuals.
Gambling in Australia provides a curious paradox. Highly liberalized State government policies that allow the proliferation of high intensity gambling coexist with extensive policy, regulation and research designed to address the negative impact of gambling on the Australian community.
本文旨在对澳大利亚赌博的发展和现状进行批判性的概述。
本文考察了澳大利亚赌博的历史和现状，特别关注社区中赌博问题的普遍性以及政策和治疗服务的发展。
本文强调了州政府作为治疗服务提供者和赌博自由化推动者的矛盾角色。它还展示了“成瘾”这一概念在澳大利亚研究和治疗服务中的概念化方式，包括对基于危害和公共卫生方法的偏好。这种观点认为，赌博问题有多种途径和决定因素，超出了个人病理学的范围。
澳大利亚的赌博存在一个有趣的悖论。高度自由化的州政府政策允许高强度赌博的泛滥，同时也有广泛的政策、法规和研究旨在解决赌博对澳大利亚社区的负面影响。
