Health Above Profits – We Need a New Gambling Act
Health Above Profits – We Need a New Gambling Act May CI van Schalkwyk 1 , Rebecca Cassidy 2 , Jenny Blythe 1 , & Niko Ovenden 2 1 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2 Goldsmiths, University of London This non-peer reviewed entry is published as part of the Critical Gambling Studies Blog. To cite this blog post: van Schalkwyk, M., Cassidy, R., Blythe, J., & Ovenden, N. Health Above Profits – We Need a New Gambling Act. Critical Gambling Studies . https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs165 In Great Britain, we know that people who gamble and those close to them are being harmed. Current regulation fails to protect people from harmful products and practices of the gambling industry. This makes the Westminster Government’s review of the Gambling Act 2005 an exceptionally important exercise, and a concern for everyone, as clearly the situation is unacceptable. So much of this harm is preventable. This is why we previously said that the review of the Gambling