Legacy Gambling Harms: What Happens Once the Gambling Stops?
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Rockloff, Matthew
Armstrong, Tess
Hing, Nerilee
Browne, Matthew
Russell, Alex MT
Bellringer, Maria
Palmer Du Preez, Katie
Lowe, Giulia
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Purpose of Review: Legacy gambling harm refers to adverse consequences that extend past the period where people are actively gambling at harmful levels. These harms can affect the gambler, people close to them and the wider community. This article reviews current research that investigates legacy harms; the types of legacy harm, how long they last and whether evidence suggests these harms are real or instead imagined injuries or reflections on past regrets.
Recent Findings: Legacy harms to individuals can be broadly categorised as including financial, relationship, emotional/psychological, health, culture, work/study and criminal/deviance harms. In addition, legacy harms affect entire communities by drawing funds and social capital away from vulnerable communities, leaving them socially, culturally and materially impoverished. Most legacy harms that accrue to gamblers have a half-life of 4 years, although financial harms last somewhat longer at 5 years. Greater distance in time from a past gambling issue is reliably and positively related to health and well-being indicators, including the Health Utility Index and the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index, which suggests that legacy gambling harms are real and have a lasting impact on well-being, rather than just imagined hardship from prior gambling difficulties.
Summary: These findings suggest programme and policy development to support gamblers in reducing and managing their legacy harms, rather than focusing only on relapse prevention.
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4201 Allied Health and Rehabilitation Science, 5203 Clinical and Health Psychology, 5202 Biological Psychology, 42 Health Sciences, 52 Psychology, Clinical Research, Mental health, 3 Good Health and Well Being, 4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science, 5202 Biological psychology, 5203 Clinical and health psychology
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Current Addiction Reports, ISSN: 2196-2952 (Print); 2196-2952 (Online), Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 9(4), 392-399. doi: 10.1007/s40429-022-00434-7