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Maurizio Flask (Consults
antiusury): " In three years the expense per capita
for the gambling e' last from 290 to
350 euros. When l' economy goes badly, c' and piu' resource
to miracolistiche solutions. And then e' increased l'
offer of the Stato" It seems paradoxical, but and
own cosi': the gambling e' l' only field
that does not suffer of the economic crisis. Indeed, also
in the 2004 of e' benefitted. To assert it e' Maurizio
Flask, expert of consults national antiusury that saturday
11 Decembers, in the polifunzionale center of Campoformido
(from the hours 9) interverra' to the Fifth organized
national convention dall' It churns, l' association of
the former players d' hazard and of their families that
center own to Campoformido has, from the Caritas diocesane
of the Friuli-V.G., from national Consulta antiusury.
Own to Campoformido, in fact, from 1998 the psychologist
and psicoterapeuta Rolando De Luca has given life to a
therapeutic group - supported dall' communal administration
- than e' point of reference for the many that they want
to exit from the drama of the dependency from the gambling.
Currently the families continuations are a novantina.
" Scope of this convention - De Luca asserts -, besides
to introduce the more meaningful experiences, e' that
one to confirm as the situation of the game d' hazard
in Italy and Friuli always goes aggravating itself more.
To say it they are the data, and in particular the 50
thousand billions expenses in the gambling,
between illegal and legal. It is estimated that l' 80%
of the Italians dedicate attention to the gambling,
while the pathological game regards between l' 1 and 3%
of the population adulta". And own on these aspects
sarr centralized the relation of Flask. " The issue
dell' impact of the game on the societa' - it asserts
- e' structured in a system of circles it concentrates
to us: c' e' wrap more wide of the occasional players,
then that of accustoms them, at last that of the pathological
ones. E' clearly that more it is become larger before,
more they become greater the second one and also third,
that of those who ends in the extreme and more harmful
forms of the gambling. And unfortunately
today, regarding four years ago, " the total expense
of the Italians for the games illegal publics and e' fortemente
increased and above all it has been involved all the social
layers. Between 2000 and the 2004 we have had an increase
nearly of 50%. Moreover if in the 2001 expense per capita
in Italy for the game it were of 290 euros, c now gone
up to 350 euro". And this boom has reply also in
the greater resource to loans to usury. " Precise
data are not any - Flask asserts to us - pern if till
the end of the years ' 90 between the families that addressed
to the foundations antiusury c' they were rare cases of
gambling, now they represent the 10%".
Which the causes of such expansion? " While by now
the game d' hazard not and more legacy to a moment of
the week or a specific place. Now pun to play itself wherever
and in any hour of the day: l' offer e' incorporated in
the quotidianita'. With financial institution 2003 e'
given state the vialibera to the videopoker: currently
are 50 thousand authorized points, but they are destined
to double. Still. The lottery is not played more to botteghino
venerde the evening, but two times, than after financial
institution 2005 will become three, and the points in
order to play are 50 thousands. Then c' e' the entered
sport bet in vigor in the ' 98, pun to make oneself from
the 8 to the 23 in the 8 thousand points. Then there are
the 250 knows them bingo, not to mention Gratta and you
win. And now a new virtual freeway is opened that portera
the gambling in million houses: the gambling
online with the controlled computer by means of prepaid
from the legal monopolies, previewed from the financial
institution 2005". And which sara' l' impact of all
cio'? " In the first place c' e' a serious impact
on the familiar nets. And then c' e' the consequence to
crush in condition of poverta' the families, weakening
every push all' autoassistenza of the disagiate families.
At last, 2%, 23 billions of euro, the Pil (destined to
become 3%) diverted on the games e' a figure embezzled
to the question of consumption. The traders complain themselves
that this sara' a Born them gramo. Perhaps the sara' for
the stores, but not certainly for the giochi". But
here the point. The economic crisis must not have effects
also on the gambling? " Nient' at
all - Flask answers - e' a studied phenomenon for a long
time. Between l' course dell' economy and that one of
the games c' and a relationship inversely proporziona
them. When l' economy pulls, generating occupation, opportunitr
and optimism, the generated cognitive distortion from
the miracolistica solution loses credibilita'. When instead
l' economy goes badly, increases the resource all' illusione".
Which then the solution? " First of all - accusation
Flask - the State must invert this andazzo. It must lead
back to a responsabilita' it publishes how much happens,
while c' e' instead who it is boasted quite of these risultati".
The convention " Car aid and therapy for the players
d' hazard and their families: experiences and perspectives
in Italia". Intito it things the convention on the
game d' hazard that svolgera' saturday 11 Decembers in
the polifunzionale center of Campoformido. The intense
activities will begin to hours 9 and will be coordinated
Riccardo Zerbetto, president of Alea (association for
the study of the game d' hazard) and Maximum Clerici (Societa'
Italian for the study of the abuse behaviors and dependency).
The salutes inaugurate them will be capacities from the
mayor of Campoformido, Andrea Zuliani, from the director
of the diocesana Caritas of Udine, don Luigi Gloazzo,
and from the president of It churns, Adrian Valvasori.
To open the intense activities the Maximum father Rakes,
president of national Consulta antiusury. Numerous the
relatori that will carry the testimony of their experiences
in the field of the fight all' gambling
from all Italy. To receive the participants to the convention
sull' gambling of Campoformido us sara an extension of
some advertising manifestos of sensitization on the problem.
To realize them c be the class 5S dell' Institute be them
d' art I saddle of Udine. They will be the same students
to illustrate the job, in the afternoon. A job, that one
of the students of Sello, as the Adrian C#lecce explains
prof., begun with the taken one of conscience of the problem
through the direct testimony of some former players, in
order to pass then to the communication through the techniques
of advertising diagram, realizing a sensitization campaign.
The player type 50% to the casino' to which they are the
characteristics of who addresses to the center of therapy
of Campoformido for former players d' hazard and they
families? 65% of i players c married, while 35% not the
c. 3% c in possession of elementary licence, 48% of medium
licence, 45% of diploma of advanced school, 4% of bachelor.
76% come from the Friuli-Venice Julia, remaining 24% from
outside. Which the relative habits to the game d' hazard?
51% played to the casino' , 21% to the race to the horses,
15% to the lottery, 13% to the videopoker. L' etr more
represented (51%) e' that between the forty and cinquant'
years; 22% have between the fifty and sessant' years,
14% between try and forty, less 7% than thirty, more 6%
than sixty. " It emerges therefore un' etr medium
rather elevated - De Luca asserts - and this it makes
to think that the players and the families arrive to our
center with game experiences of gambling protratte in
the tempo". For how much it concerns to the sex,
majority (85%) is males. Independent 73% working c, 27%
dependent (not instead are vacated). Often the game e'
associated to other dependencies: 90% of the players e'
employee from tobacco; it makes alcohol use 15% of the
participants, while l' substance or use more psicotrope
regards 3%. 30% before abandon the therapy (in or the
second sitting). Of these nearly all resume to play. The
result? The overwhelming majority of attending does not
play more d' hazard, while the others, also continuing
to attend the therapy, continue to play, even if in inferior
measure respect all' beginning. Who ce l' it has made
Return to the life to a year has ended the therapy of
dottor the De Luca to Campoformido, and is resolutions
to return to their daily life. They are of a ten the families
of former players who, after a distance of approximately
four years, have succeeded to detach themselves from that
umbilical cord that alloy psychologist and patient. These
are the first families that have concluded the therapy
and are returned to the normal life, from when born c
the center of Campoformido. They will be the directed
ones interested to tell their history in the course of
the convention, saturday 11 Decembers in the afternoon.
" There are three types of conclusion of the therapy
- De Luca asserts -: that positive one in which the or
therapist whom the patient the relationship have accepted
end of; that negative in which the patient it leaves in
aggressive way the therapist (from we cio' e' enough rare);
at last that in which a relationship of dipendenza"
is created;. And own quest' last De Luca always tries
to avoid it: " To remain in the group to limitless
time could be un' illusion to exceed difficoltr future.
For cio' it goes avoided, helping the persons to come
to pacts with the fact that pun never not to be itself
sure in no place and that the risk exists sempre".
In any case, according to De the discharged Luca, families
" they are not to risk, in they I do not see dangers
of return to the sintomo". The testimony I have lost
2 billions In a ten d' years e' succeeded in to lose "
between and two billions of lire". To tell it e'
he same Mauro (fantasy name c). He has 47 years, ago the
adviser trades them and gives approximately 20 months
e' one of the patients of dottor the De Luca to Campoformido.
" I have made it telephone call in order to ask aid
and to have information on the center, but also my companion
has helped me and pushed. I had arrived to a point in
which I did not know more what to make, the suffering
was such that I did not succeed more in sopportarla".
How it has begun? " It is always begun for joke,
with the friends. Then the thing is expanded and e' like
going on the ring with Tyson". When e' shrewed that
the gambling had become a dependency? " The thing
worse was to exit from the Casino' and to cover the feature
that carried to me all' automobile, was mine calvario".
What the da' the therapy? " Flat Pian I am buying
back my equilibriums, with difficolta' , but with engagement
and costanza, and the participation of the family e' fundamental.
From the economic point of view, then, the improvement
e' immediate, from the moment that the family has the
control of the flows of denaro". How she returns
herself to having an equilibrium? " Facing the realta'
, not using the escape more in order to escape to the
problems of the vita". C' c a reason for which it
is sheltered to us in the game d' hazard? " I do
not know it, perhaps many things. Certainly e' that to
play it makes to change not only the life style you, but
also the way of pensare". It scares l' idea to at
the end leave the group of the therapy? " If it were
now if, c' e' still a distance from fare".
Service of Stefano Damiani The Catholic Life, 10. Decembers
2004, In time of crisis - boom of gambling |
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