Campaigns for Responsible Gaming
Responsible Gaming is first and foremost a relationship of trust between the player and the casino, website, application that he uses. This confidence must remain anchored in the transparency of the rules, the pleasure of the game and the desire to avoid excesses for all players.
It is to prevent these risks, allow its customers to maintain their pleasure of playing and affirm the role of its employees within the Group, that Barrière goes further. More than informing, our objective is to prevent so-called problematic gambling and to support those who wish it thanks to the support of our teams specially trained in listening and advice.
What is pathological gambling?
Gambling addiction, gambling addiction, problem gambling, pathological gambling, … there are many names but what exactly do these terms mean?
According to the 2015 “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” also called DSM 5, Pathological Gambling is a disorder linked to gambling. Concretely, this relates to an inappropriate, persistent and repeated practice of gambling leading to an alteration of functioning or suffering, clinically significant, as evidenced, in the subject, by the presence of at least four of the following manifestations during over a period of 12 months:
- Need to play with increasing amounts of money to achieve the desired state of excitement
- Agitation or irritability when trying to reduce or stop gambling
- Repeated but unsuccessful efforts to control, reduce or stop gambling
- Preoccupation with gambling (remembering past gambling experiences or anticipating future attempts or means of obtaining money to gamble).
- Often plays during periods of suffering/unhappiness (e.g. feelings of helplessness, guilt, anxiety, depression)
- After losing money gambling, often returns to play another day to recover his losses (to “remake himself”)
- Lies to hide the true extent of his gambling habits
- Endangers or has lost an important emotional relationship, job, or educational or career opportunity because of gambling
- Relies on others to obtain money and get out of desperate financial situations due to gambling.
