Useful publications about gambling

Useful publications for gamblers, their family and friends and professionals who encounter gambling related harms in their work.

Gambling and Problem Gambling - Briefly and Clearly

This booklet talks about gambling, risks associated with gambling, and problem gambling. Gambling is widely available in Finland and Finnish people gamble a lot.

Gambling and Problem Gambling - Briefly and Clearly

Penno Manage Your Money

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For professionals

Instances providing different support and treatment services can order the following brochures to their premises to give out to the customers

• brochures of Peluuri (in Finnish, Swedish and English)
• brochures of The time to Fold (Peli poikki) program (in Finnish)

Orders by email: peluuri(a)peluuri.fi

More about gambling problem

Gambling and problem gambling – Finnish Gambling 2019 : Prevalence of at-risk gambling has decreased

State of play 2017 : A review of gambling in Finland

Salonen AH, CastrénS, Alho H & Lahti T (2014). Concerned significant others of people with gambling prob-lems in Finland: a cross-sectional population study . BMC Public Health14, 398.

Avellan M (2013) ed. Yearbook of Gambling in Finland 2012 . Ministry of the Interior, National Police Board, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health,National Institute for Health and Welfare. Helsinki 2013.

Castrén S, Basnet S, Pankakoski M, Ronkainen J-E, Helakorpi S, Uutela A, Alho H & Lahti T (2013). An analysis of Problem Gambling among the Finnish working-age population: A Population Survey . BMC, Public Health 13, 519.


Castrén S, Pankakoski M, Tamminen M, Lipsanen J, Ladouceur R & Lahti T (2013). Internet-based CBT inter-vention for gamblers in Finland experiences from the field. Scand J Psychol. 2013 Feb 8.