Problem Gambling: The Next Ten Years

Don Feeney

Research and Planning Director

Minnesota State Lottery

The big issues (according to me)

• The Millennial Generation

The big issues (according to me)

• The Millennial Generation

• Non-gambling Gambling

The big issues (according to me)

• The Millennial Generation

• Non-gambling Gambling

• The Unmassing of Mass Media

The big issues (according to me)

• The Millennial Generation

• Non-gambling Gambling

• The Unmassing of Mass Media

• Big Data

The big issues (according to me)

• The Millennial Generation

• Non-gambling Gambling

• The Unmassing of Mass Media

• Big Data

• Cultural diversity

The big issues (according to me)

• The Millennial Generation

• Non-gambling Gambling

• The Unmassing of Mass Media

• Big Data

• Cultural diversity

• Translating Research to Practice

The big issues (according to me)

• The Millennial Generation

• Non-gambling Gambling

• The Unmassing of Mass Media

• Big Data

• Cultural Diversity

• Translating Research to Practice

• Overcoming Shame and Stigma

Would you say that addiction to gambling is primarily …?

47%

6%

32%

15%

A personal or

moral weakness

A medical

problem

Both Something else

Source: IPSOS 9/11

“Controlling compulsive gambling is mostly a matter of willpower”

21%

23%

55%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Neutral

Disagree

Agree

Source: Ipsos-Reid 2012

“…The majority of people who receive treatment for compulsive gambling achieve life-long recovery”

40%

29%

31%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Neutral

Disagree

Agree

Source: Ipsos Reid 2012

The big issues (according to me)

• The Millennial Generation

• Non-gambling Gambling

• The Unmassing of Mass Media

• Big Data

• Cultural diversity

• Translating Research to Practice

• Overcoming Shame and Stigma

• Creating a Rational Public Policy