Editorial. Gambling involves placing something of value at risk in the hopes of gaining something of greater value, and includes casino gambling, lotteries, and internet gambling. Gambling is not an ordinary activity: it is a health-harming addictive behaviour, recently recognised in the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11) and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th Edition (DSM-5). Gambling disorders often remain undiagnosed and untreated…..

[From this special issue of The Lancet Public Health, see also]

Comments

• e2 The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling
• e4 Gambling-related suicidality: stigma, shame, and neglect
• e6 Tackling stigma in self-harm and suicide in the young

Articles:

• Interventions to reduce the public health burden of gambling-related harms: a mapping review.
• Suicidality and gambling among young adults in Great Britain: results from a cross-sectional online survey