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SUMMARY:The Thouless Natural Sciences Lecture - Gambling harms in the UK: 
 speaking science to power
LOCATION:Cambridge University: Trinity Hall
DESCRIPTION:Join Trinity Hall Fellow\, Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones\, 
 National Advisor on Gambling Harms\, as she uses images and anecdotes to b
 ring science to a subject long overshadowed by other addictions. The arriv
 al of smartphones in 2007 and the proliferation of online betting coincide
 d with a change in the way the country was exposed to gambling\, through b
 oth sports and advertising\, following a loosening of regulatory measures 
 in the same year. Henrietta is Founder and Director of the first NHS clini
 c to treat gambling disorder\, and has witnessed first-hand the harms caus
 ed by the ‘casino in your pocket’ of smartphones as people moved away 
 from traditional forms of gambling to online betting. Since her first clin
 ic\, another fourteen have been set up across the country as the prevalenc
 e of gambling disorder has now reached a staggering 2.5% of the population
 \, according to the Gambling Commission’s recent statistics. Gambling di
 sorder is finally being addressed with evidence-based treatment\, with res
 earch and most importantly with a public health approach.
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