PROBLEM GAMBLING AWARENESS MONTH – MARCH 2014
By Margot Cahoon, Communications Director, Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling For the first time in the history of the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG), the group has announced National Problem Gambling Awareness Month (PGAM). The grassroots public awareness and outreach campaign was previously held over a one-week time period, during the first week of […]
Terri Sue Canale: Building a Treatment Program in California
By Terri Sue Canale, Chief, Office of Problem Gambling, California Department of Public Health As the 2014 Massachusetts Conference on Gambling Problems – Celebrating 30 Years: The Game has Changed approaches, we are thrilled to be able to dedicate our blog to give you weekly highlights leading up to April 10 & 11. Highlights will […]
Dr. Marc N. Potenza: Brain Imaging and Psychopharmacology in Gambling Disorder
by Dr. Marc N. Potenza, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine As the 2014 Massachusetts Conference on Gambling Problems – Celebrating 30 Years: The Game has Changed approaches, we are thrilled to be able to dedicate our blog to give you weekly highlights leading up to April 10 & 11. Posts will include information […]
Dr. Rachel Volberg: How Research Can Help to Change the Game in Massachusetts
by Dr. Rachel Volberg, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst As the 2014 Massachusetts Conference on Gambling Problems – Celebrating 30 Years: The Game has Changed approaches, we are thrilled to be able to dedicate our blog to give you weekly highlights leading up to April 10 & […]
THE COUNCIL WELCOMES MEAGHAN LYVER
by Meaghan Lyver, Communications Intern, Massachussetts Council on Compulsive Gambling Hi! My name is Meaghan Lyver and I am the Council’s newest Communications Intern. I am currently a senior at Salem State University, where I am set to graduate in May 2014, with a B.A. in Communications and a concentration in Public Relations. I will […]
