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ACMHAI Webinar: Understanding Gambling and the Impact on Behavioral Health
July 29, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Learn more about problem gambling and opportunities for mental health boards to address the issue. Speakers: Shane Cook and Sandra Beecher, Gateway Foundation
Objectives:
Provide a broader understanding of gambling, including its effects on the gambler & affected others. We will explore how friction-less accessibility to gambling and gaming are eliminating barriers to entry for all ages. We’ll also discuss the progression of gambling disorder, it’s impact on behavioral health and treatment options that are available in Illinois.
Including:
- Brief historical review of gambling
- The impact of gambling
- Identify gambling behaviors
- Recognizing similarities and differences of gambling/ substance use disorders and negative consequences
- Different types of gamblers
- Stages and progression of Gambling Disorder
- 2025 growing concern about the rise in Gambling Disorder
- Gateway’s Gambling treatment and other treatment options
- Questions