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The United Kingdom is perhaps the world leader in regulating online casinos.  Not only did they legalize and regulate online casinos successfully, a United Kingdom Health initiative was put forward to provide advice and treatment compulsive gamblers.  That initiative finally matured in the form of the very first National Problem Gambling Clinic. 

Although clinic was only opened on a 12 month trial basis, it has already attracted a lot of interest.  The clinic is staffed out with psychiatrists, psychologists, debt management counselors, and family therapists.

“We have developed a unique treatment package to address specific difficulties that are common to problem gamblers,” said Doctor Henrietta Bowden-Jones, the lead consultant psychiatrist at the National Problem Gambling Clinic.

“Due to the nature of their addiction, gamblers' finances are often in bad shape so an important part of treatment is to tackle debt management and employment issues. We also address the needs of clients' partners and family members who have been affected by their gambling disorder and any coexisting mental health conditions such as depression.”

The primary form of care that will patients will receive is motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy.  Debt management will also play a major part in treatment. 

It is important to have some form of gambling assistance in a country where online casinos are legalized.  In some cases it has been shown that people that gamble at online casinos are slower to recognize that they have a gambling problem.   Some are less inclined to admit it because they can gamble in the privacy of their own homes.

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