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• Title: Implications of American Indian Gambling for Social Work Research and Practice (Report)
• Author : Social Work
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 204 KB

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There is a pressing need for social work researchers and practitioners to become aware of the phenomenon of gambling in the United States, especially within Indian tribes. The number of U.S. states with some form of gambling increased from two to 48 between 1972 and 1999 (Smith &Wynne, 2000). In the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) 1999 report to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC), 86 percent of adult participants in the United States reported some lifetime participation in traditional forms of gambling, and 68 percent reported gambling at least once in the past year (Gerstein et al., 1999). In another 1999-2000 U.S. gambling survey of past-year participation, 82 percent of adult participants reported gambling in the past year, with the largest extent of gambling involvement being casino gambling (Welte, Barnes, Wieczorek, Tidwell, & Parker, 2002). Gaming has become widespread in Indian communities, with 225 tribes in 28 states operating some form of gambling (National Indian Gaming Association [NIGA], 2006). Existing research reveals a complex pattern of risks and gains from gambling within American Indian communities. The presence of casinos on reservations has resulted in positive social and economic changes, including job creation and decreasing rates of poverty. However, the growth of gambling is an important public health and social work issue as it may increase the risk for gambling pathology. Indeed, as legal gambling has become more available and participation has increased across the United States, so has problem and pathological,, gambling (Gerstein et al., 1999; Potenza, Kosten, & Rounsaville, 2001; Shaffer, Hall, &Vander Bilt, 1999; Welte et al., 2002). Of concern is that minority populations, especially American Indians, are four to six times more likely to be pathological gamblers and two to five times more likely to be problem gamblers than non-Indians (Petry, 2005; Wardman, El-Guebaly, & Hodgins, 2001). BACKGROUND

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