@Article{Wieczorek2017,
journal="Alcoholism and Drug Addiction/Alkoholizm i Narkomania",
issn="0867-4361",
volume="30",
number="2",
year="2017",
title="Recommendations for improving the availability and the quality of treatment service for gambling disorder persons",
abstract=" Introduction : The  reasons for not taking treatment may include various social, cultural, individual and structural health system factors. The  aim of  the  article is to present recommendations for improving the  aid provision situation as regards people with gambling disorders and tailoring the  service to their needs.   Material and methods:   The  qualitative method in the  form of  a semi-structured interview was used in the  study. A  total of  90 interviews were conducted; people with gambling disorders, employees of  social welfare centres, therapists employed in addiction treatment centres (both for drug and alcohol dependence), general practitioners and psychiatrists were involved.   Results:   The  recommendations identified in the  study can be categorised into five areas: limiting the  availability of  gambling, information and education, increasing access to treatment, improving the  quality and adequacy of  treatment, and research. Within these areas more specific issues were divided.   Discussion : Introducing solutions with proven efficacy which limit the  availability of  alcoholic beverages to the  field of  gambling policy can be an  effective way of  limiting the  prevalence of  gambling and gambling related problems. Improving information and education strategies can increase the  awareness in public opinion of  the  threat of  gambling problems and bring attention to its importance among other social problems. In turn, increasing the  availability of  treatment and its quality and adequacy are important from the  point of  view of  the  barriers identified in the  research that people undertaking therapy encounter.",
author="Wieczorek, Łukasz
and Dąbrowska, Katarzyna
and Moskalewicz, Jacek",
pages="113--136",
doi="10.5114/ain.2017.70289",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ain.2017.70289"
}