Internet Gambling: Prevalence, Patterns, Problems, and Policy Options

Acknowledgements There are three organizations that contributed to the success of this study. We thank the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre for their continuing support of our research efforts and their generous funding of this project. We thank the Curriculum Development Centre and the Info Tech – Web Team at the University of Lethbridge, and particularly Trevor Flexhaug for his technical skill in developing the International Online Survey. Lastly, we thank the Institute for Social Research at York University for conducting the Canadian Telephone Survey.

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