What is the “Gambling Establishment” and why does it require reform and regulation? We explore the power and scope of the Gambling Establishment with focus on why harm prevention public health policy must become a necessary and indispensable part of legalized gambling. We examine the role of the Federal government, including Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Courts.

Ethical Gambling Reform brings harm prevention public health policy to the gambling establishment. We explore the history of “responsible gaming” and how the gambling industry attempts to utilize this policy to avoid regulation and reform. We closely examine why industry self regulation is a significant risk to public health.

Ethical Gambling Reform brings harm prevention public health policy to the advertising and promotion of legalized gambling. We examine the significant risk of harm caused by gambling advertising and VIP Schemes. We explore the complex financial relationships between the gambling industry, sports leagues, television, and media.

More than 60% of gambling industry revenue comes from people demonstrating symptoms of problem gambling or gambling disorder. We explore how the gambling industry utilizes addictive products to maximize revenue. We examine the significant risk of harm presented by online casino gambling, in-game sports betting, and the gambling establishment strategy to keep people in constant action. Ethical Gambling Reform explores how promoting addictive products now extends to the entire gambling establishment including professional and collegiate sports.

People struggling with gambling problems have the highest suicide rate of any addiction. We must end the stigma attached to gambling disorder and mental health. Ethical Gambling Reform focuses on education, lived experience, and mental health. We invoke the power of lived experience to examine and explore the danger and risk inherent in the explosive and unchecked growth of legalized gambling. Ethical Gambling Reform is vital public health policy designed to end stigma, educate, and prevent harm related to gambling and Gambling Disorder.

The financial wealth and power of the gambling establishment are unprecedented. The gambling industry uses financial power to infiltrate and influence legislation, regulation, research and treatment. We examine how the gambling industry uses financial power to avoid regulation, control advocacy and research, influence treatment, and block harm prevention public policy on both the state and federal levels. We offer solutions to eliminate the undue influence of the gambling industry and bring independence to harm prevention public health policy.

We examine developments since the Court decided Murphy v NCAA and how this case is misunderstood by the gambling establishment. We explore why civil liability of the gambling industry is an integral component of harm prevention public health policy. We discuss the inexorable link between the expansion of gambling, gambling disorder, and criminal conduct. We advocate for the creation of gambling treatment diversion courts. Ethical Gambling Reform closely examines how the judicial system can play an important role in the development of harm prevention public health policy.