Problem Gambling in Canada

by Lorne Tepperman and Kristy Wanner

Gambling is a huge business in Canada, producing vast revenue for investors, as well as for the government. Yet for hundreds of thousands of Canadians, gambling is a costly and consuming addiction. The gambling industry, and the government regulators who oversee it, insist that gambling problems are isolated, personal issues that are best addressed on an individual level. However, new research paints a different picture: gambling is an addiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195445287
• ISBN13: 9780195445282
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages