ANJ and the French Observatory for addictions signs a research agreement

The French gaming regulator has launched a collaboration with the OFDT to research gambling addiction.

France.- The French gaming regulator, l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), has signed an agreement with the OFDT – the French Observatory for Drugs and Drug Addiction – for research on gambling addiction and disorders.

The two institutions will work together on projects to investigate the “complex phenomena of gambling addiction”.

The research intends to understand how to expand treatment of gambling disorders across France’s public health networks.

The agencies’ three-year collaboration will:

• Devise and implement a French gambling disorders R&D network, which will be funded by 0.002 per cent of stakes generated by all ANJ licensed incumbents.
• Co-share expertise with regards to governing the high-risk elements of gambling, its products and business services in order to maintain gambling as a recreational pursuit.
• Establish joint projects evaluating the ADHD and further phycological factors of gambling disorders, to provide vital knowledge resources for stakeholders working in academia, public policy, policing, criminality and public health.

The ANJ said:  “The ANJ may, as necessary, involve the OFDT in its work and, in particular, invite it to participate in the work of the advisory committee on the prevention of excessive gambling.

“It may also be invited to the work of the scientific college of the OFDT on subjects concerning gambling and the addiction phenomena they produce.”