The FCCG provides professional training for certification as a compulsive gambling counselor, and offers special forums for addiction, mental health, physicians, and others.
Every day compulsive gamblers and those they adversely affect present in doctors’ offices, emergency rooms, substance abuse clinics, and elsewhere with symptoms never attributed to gambling. Despite research linking gambling addiction with a series of other serious to severe health conditions, rarely is the association between poor health and compulsive gambling made. Here in
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Every day compulsive gamblers and those they adversely affect present in doctor’s offices, emergency rooms and elsewhere with symptoms never attributed to gambling. Despite research linking pathological gambling with a series of other serious to severe health conditions, rarely is the association between poor health and compulsive gambling made. Among Florida adults ages 18 and older, more than 750,000 residents suffer from difficulties due to gambling. Millions more are adversely affected. Often, one of these patients is sitting in a health care facility waiting to be seen and hoping to be treated, making the need for medical providers to screen for gambling problems even more essential.
The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling has developed an online module designed to educate medical professionals of the link between compulsive gambling and health problems which is available for CME credit through the University of South Florida. This on-demand educational module is available via internet access and offers one hour of CME credit. Visit this link to register now: https://www.cme.hsc.usf.edu/