Who does the work

What is on this page

1. Courts that have run gambling treatment programmes
2. Regulators and state agencies
3. Research centres
4. Councils and helplines
5. Certification and clinical standards
6. Industry, legal and trade bodies
7. The Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, in its own words
8. Archive: the New Jersey GTDC Advisory Group, as the campaign published it
9. Where the rest of the earlier record is kept

The first part of the page lists institutions. None of the bodies below is affiliated with this publication, and none of them has reviewed, endorsed or supplied anything on it. They appear here because their filings, registers, standards and journals are the primary sources behind the pages on this site, and a reader checking our work should be able to find them in one place.

The second part is an archive. This address previously belonged to a campaign for a New Jersey gambling treatment diversion court, and it carried the campaign's advisory group — a list of named individuals with their affiliations. That list is kept further down this page as the historical record it is, under a note setting out that none of those people has anything to do with this publication or with any page written here.

Courts that have run gambling treatment programmes

• Amherst Town Court, New York — the first gambling treatment court in the United States, opened in 2001. The court is no longer active.
• Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County, Nevada — established Nevada's first Gambling Treatment Diversion Court in 2018, with a dedicated court coordinator.

Regulators and state agencies

• Nevada Gaming Control Board — licensing, enforcement and hearings for the Nevada industry.
• New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement — licensing and compliance for Atlantic City and New Jersey online gambling.
• Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, Office of Compulsive and Problem Gambling — the rare case of a harm office built inside the regulator itself.
• Massachusetts Gaming Commission — licensing, with a research agenda written into its enabling statute.
• New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services — funds and oversees state treatment provision.
• Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, New Jersey — state prevention and treatment funding.
• Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Problem Gambling Services — state treatment programme.
• Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, Oregon Health Authority, Health Systems Division, and the California Department of Public Health, Office of Problem Gambling — the state agencies that hold the treatment budgets.
• UK Gambling Commission and the Malta Gaming Authority — the two registers most often invoked, correctly or not, as proof that a site is licensed.

Research centres

• UNLV International Gaming Institute, Las Vegas — industry and responsible-gambling research.
• UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law — gaming law scholarship, and publisher of the UNLV Gaming Law Journal.
• Rutgers University Center for Gambling Studies, New Jersey — prevalence and treatment research.
• University of Sydney, Australia — clinical research on gambling treatment.
• McGill University, Canada — youth gambling research.
• University of Chicago, Department of Psychiatry — gambling disorder and impulse control research.
• UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences — the Gambling Studies Programme.
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Michigan State University (criminal justice), Université Laval, Canada, and the Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas — further academic sources cited on this site.

Councils and helplines

• National Council on Problem Gambling, Washington, D.C. — operates the National Problem Gambling Helpline, 1-800-GAMBLER, and publishes the call data that is so often misread. Our reading of those numbers is at What helpline call numbers do and do not tell you.
• Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey — the state's oldest helpline and referral body, at 800gambler.org.
• State and regional councils in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia; the Problem Gambling Network of Ohio; the Northstar Problem Gambling Alliance, Minnesota; the Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling, Washington; and the Oregon Council on Problem Gambling.
• National Association of Administrators for Disordered Gambling Services — the body for the state administrators who run those programmes.
• NHS National Problem Gambling Clinic, United Kingdom — publicly funded specialist treatment.

Certification and clinical standards

• International Gambling Counselor Certification Board — the ICGC credential, at igccb.org. Internationally certified problem gambling counsellors are qualified mental health providers.
• American Compulsive Gambling Counselor Certification Board — founded in 1988, the first body of its kind.

Industry, legal and trade bodies

• Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers — the manufacturers' body, with its own responsible gaming programme.
• Responsible Gambling Council, Ontario — standards and accreditation.
• International Masters of Gaming Law and the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States — the two forums where gambling law is argued before it is drafted.
• Centre for Social Justice, United Kingdom — criminal justice and addiction policy.
• EPIC Risk Management, Kindbridge, Gamban and Gambling Guardian — harm-prevention, teletherapy and blocking services.
• Japan Sustainable Responsible Gaming Council — the responsible gaming body for a market still being built.
• Spectrum Gaming Group, Global Gaming Business and the Gaming Law Review — the consultancy and trade press whose figures circulate fastest and are checked least.

The Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, in its own words

The text below is the Council's own mission statement, kept on this page in the wording it was published in at this address, including its punctuation.

The Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, Inc. (Council) is a private non-profit 501 (c) organization composed of concerned individuals from diverse backgrounds. The group's primary purpose is to represent the best interest of compulsive gamblers and their families, recognizing that compulsive gambling is a treatable illness.

The Council focuses on educating the general public, training professionals throughout the State, referring compulsive gamblers and their families in treatment, and advocating for increased treatment services for compulsive gamblers and their families.

The Council also advises the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services provides the executive and legislative branches of State government with relevant data on all aspects of the compulsive gambling problem; and provides assistance to those private or public agencies in the State who request it.

The Council neither opposes nor endorses legalized gambling. However, the Council may take positions on various issues surrounding legalized gambling when the members believe that taking a stand is in the best interest of compulsive gamblers and their families.

The Council's own address is 800gambler.org, and its helpline is the one to call rather than anything on this page.

Archive: the New Jersey GTDC Advisory Group, as the campaign published it

What follows is the historical record of this address, kept because it is the record and not because it is an endorsement. Until this domain became a publication, it carried at this same address the advisory group of the New Jersey Gambling Treatment Diversion Court campaign: judges, clinicians, academics, regulators, counsellors and industry figures, each with the title and affiliation the campaign gave them. The list below is that list, in the version carried under the campaign's 2026 copyright line, with the names and affiliations as they were published and nothing added.

None of the people named below has any connection to this publication or to any page written here. They were listed by the campaign that held the domain before it, in support of a court programme, at a date now in the past; several of the affiliations will have changed since, and the publication has not contacted any of them. Nothing on this site was reviewed, supplied or approved by them, and no page here should be read as carrying their authority. The campaign's own contact details are not reproduced, because the campaign no longer exists at this address to answer them.

An asterisk marks the entries the campaign marked in memoriam.

• Alex Macey, CEO & Founder, Gamvisory Group, England, UK
• Adrian Crossley, Head of Criminal Justice and Addiction, Centre for Social Justice, UK
• Arnie and Sheila Wexler, Wexler Associates, NJ / FL
• Alan Feldman, Distinguished Fellow in Responsible Gaming, UNLV IGI, Las Vegas, NV
• Anthony Cabot, Professor, Esq., Distinguished Fellow of Gaming Law, UNLV Boyd School of Law, Las Vegas, NV
• Anthony Wang, Esquire, Las Vegas, NV
• Alex Blaszczynski, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney, Australia
• Alex Weldon, Online Poker Report, Nova Scotia
• Alexander Lewis, Founder, The Invisible Addiction Podcast, UK
• Adrian Sladdin, Seventh Wave Corporate Training & Enviro Education, Ltd., London, UK
• Andrew Tottenham, Managing Director Tottenham & Co, International Gaming Consultant, UK
• Andrew Walsh, MSW, LSW, NJ Family and Addiction Institute, NJ
• Bobby Kahler, Regional Director Marketing Operations, Caesars Entertainment Corp., Atlantic City Region, NJ
• Bo Bernhard, Ph.D., Vice President, UNLV IGI, Las Vegas, NV
• Becky Harris, (Former Senator), Distinguished Fellow, UNLV IGI, Las Vegas, NV
• Bill Pascrell III, Esq., Partner, Princeton Public Affairs Group, Inc. / Strategic Advisor / Public & Government Affairs Professional / Lobbyist, NJ
• Brett Abarbanel, Ph.D., Director of Research, UNLV IGI, Las Vegas, NV
• Brianne Doura-Schawohl, Vice President of US Policy & Strategic Dev., EPIC Risk Management, Washington, D.C.
• Brian Hatch, Creator/Host of ALL IN: The Addicted Gambler's Podcast, MI
• Bea Aikens, BS, Lanie's Hope, Las Vegas, NV
• Charles P. (CP) Mirarchi, III, Esq., ICGC-II, BACC, LCADC, LPC, Board Cert Prof Counselor, TheGamblingCounselor.com, Philadelphia, PA *
• Carol O'Hare, NV Council on Problem Gambling, Las Vegas, NV
• Carolene Layugan, Caesars Director of Responsible Gaming, Las Vegas, NV
• Connie Jones, AGEM Director of Responsible Gaming, Las Vegas, NV
• Camille Bloomberg, LPC, LCADC, ATR, CPS, Private Practitioner, NJ
• Carol Spiker, LAC, KCGC, Kansas Dept of Aging and Disability Services, Kansas
• Carolyn Hawley, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia
• Celina Levy, Executive Director, Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, NJ
• Chan Lengsavath, Hearing Officer, Gaming Control Board, Las Vegas, NV
• Christina Gray, Indiana Council on Problem Gambling, Indiana
• Daniel Umfleet, CEO & Founder, Kindbridge, England, UK
• Dan Trolaro, MS, Vice President of Prevention, Epic Risk Management, US
• David Mee-Lee, M.D., DML Training and Consulting, CA
• Dayvid Figler, Esq., Figler Law Group, Las Vegas, NV
• David Yeager, Advocate for Veterans in Gambling Crisis, Reading, PA
• Deborah Therkorn, MA, LAC, Counselor and Adjunct Professor, NJ
• Denise Quirk, MA, MFT, LADC, NCGC-11, CPGC-S, CEO & Clinical Director, Reno Problem Gambling Center, NV
• Derek Longmeier, Executive Director, Problem Gambling Network of Ohio, OH
• Diana Goode, Executive Director, Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, CT
• Don Weinbaum, MBA, LCADC, CCJP, ACGC, Clinical Consultant, President, NJ Public Health Association, NJ
• Donald Hallcom, Ph.D., NJ DHS, Division of Mental Health & Addiction Services, NJ
• Douglas Crawford, Esq., Crawford Law Offices, Las Vegas, NV
• Elizabeth Lanza, Director of Office of Compulsive and Problem Gambling of PA Gaming Control Board, Philadelphia, PA
• Eric Randazzo, Deputy Director, The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling, FL
• Eva Wang, M.D., Retired, Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health System, Las Vegas, NV
• Felicia Grondin, MPA, CPM, Acting Executive Director, Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey
• Frances Gizzi, LCSW, C-CATODSW, ICGC-II, Problem Gambling Therapist, NJ
• Frank L. Greenagel II, MPAP, MSW, LCSW, LCADC, CASAC, ICADC, ACSW, CJC, CCS, Greenagel Counseling Services, NJ
• George Mladenetz, M.Ed., LCADC, ICGC-II, Clinical Consultant Addictions, NJ
• Glenn Osowski, ICGC-II, CPSS, Vocational Rehabilitation Readjustment Counselor, Healthcare for Homeless Veterans and Therapeutic Supported Employment Services, VA Ann Arbor Health Care System, Michigan
• Gloria Block, MS Ed., NY Council on Problem Gambling, APTPG, NY
• Greta Coe, Problem Gambling Services Manager, Oregon Health Authority, Health Systems Division, Portland, OR
• Harry Levant, J.D., ICGC-I, Clinical Consultant, Master's Candidate La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
• I. Nelson Rose, Professor Emeritus, Whittier College, California
• Janet Miller, MS, LAC, CCGC, CCDP-D, AADC, Louisiana Council on Problem Gambling, LA
• Jeffrey Derevensky, Ph.D., Professor, McGill University, Ontario, Canada
• Jeffrey Wasserman, JD, ICGC-II, CPRS, Judicial Outreach & Development Director, Delaware
• Jennifer Kruse, Executive Director, The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling, FL
• Jennifer Davis-Walton, MA, First Choice Services, West Virginia
• Jeremy Phillips Q.C., Licensing and Disciplinary, Gambling, Sports and Professional Conduct, International Masters of Gaming Law, UK
• Jeremy Wampler, LCSW, ICGC-II, BACC, LADC, Director, DHMAS of Problem Gambling Services, Connecticut
• Joe Zanzonico, J.D., Treatment Advocate at Recovery Centers of America
• John Hanamirian Esq., Hanamirian Law Firm, NJ
• John J. White LPC, LCADC, ACS, SAPTI Program Manager, DMHAS, NJ
• Jon Grant, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, IL
• Joseph Bufalino, Director of Responsible Gambling, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
• Josh Ercole, Executive Director, PA Council on Compulsive Gambling, PA
• Joshua Krakow, Esq., Former Judicial Law Clerk, Las Vegas / NJ
• Judith Glynn, M.S., President, PRET Solutions, Responsible Gambling Trust, Ontario, Canada
• Julie Hynes, MA, RD, CPS, Executive Director, Oregon Council on Problem Gambling, OR
• Kaitlin Foshay, LPC, LADC, ICGC II, BACC, Director of Programs & Services, Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling
• Kayte Conroy, Ph.D., Mapleview Center, LLC, Clinical Associate Professor, University of NY at Buffalo, NY
• Keith F. Pickard, Nevada Senator, Las Vegas, NV
• Keith Whyte, Executive Director, National Council on Problem Gambling, Washington, D.C.
• Ken Litwak, MS, CADC, ICGC-II, CCTP, DRCC, Counselor, Kindbridge Therapy, NJ
• Kenneth Saucier, MSW, LCS, Network Services Coordinator, State of Louisiana, LA
• Kenneth Strait, Retired Municipal Court Judge, Gambling Counselor, Peer Recovery Specialist, Program Counselor, NJ
• Kristine Kuzemka, Esq., Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, Las Vegas, NV
• Larry Ashley, Ph.D., Professor, Michigan *
• Lawrence Lustberg, Esq., Director of Gibbons, P.C., NJ
• Lia Nower, JD, Ph.D., Director of Rutgers University Center for Gambling Studies, NJ
• Linda Graves, Psy D, ICGC-II, Executive Director, National Association of Administrators for Disordered Gambling Services, CA
• Luis Del Orbe, MPA, CSW, Gambling Prevention Specialist, Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, NJ
• Marc Lefkowitz, ICGC-II, BACC, Director Program Management, Kindbridge, Inc., AZ
• Mark Checkwicz, B.S., Co-Founder We're-All-In LLC, Springfield, MA
• Martin Lycka, SVP for American Regulatory Affairs and Responsible Gambling, Entain, London, UK
• Matt Morris, Esq., Holland & Hart, Las Vegas, NV
• Maureen Greeley, Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling, WA
• Melanie White, Fraud & Responsible Gaming Expert, Malta
• Melissa Etherington, Partnerships & Business Development, Gamban, England, UK
• Michael Auer, Ph.D., Director, NECCTON, LTD., Austria
• Michael Burke, NCPG Director, Executive Director, Michigan Association on Problem Gambling
• Michael Pollock, Managing Director, Spectrum Gaming, NCLGS, NJ
• Michelle Malkin, J.D., Criminal Justice, Ph.D. Candidate, Michigan State University, MI
• Milan Karna, Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, OH
• Mina Hazar, MA, Strategic Planner, YMCA of Greater Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Nancy Murray, Problem Gambling Services Manager, Rhode Island Council on Problem Gambling, RI
• Nick Phillips, Founder & CEO, Gambling Guardian, Wales, UK
• Naoyuki Nishimura, M.D., Ph.D., Representative Director CEO, Japan Sustainable Responsible Gaming Council, Japan
• Olga Balakova, MA, NCC, LCADC, LAC, Private Practicioner, NJ
• Owen Baily, Peer Mentor, NHS National Problem Gambling Clinic, UK
• Pam Koopman, President, Arizona Council on Compulsive Gambling, AZ
• Patrick Willard, Director of Policy & Advocacy, National Council on Problem Gambling, Washington, D.C.
• Paul Buck, CEO, EPIC Risk Management, London, England, UK
• Paul Pellizzari, Vice President Global Social Responsibility, Hard Rock International, FL
• Richard Schuetz, ABD Ph.D. Economics, B.S. Business, M.A. Philosophy, M.A. Finance, Consultant, Schuetz, Inc., Pennsylvania
• Raymond Ortiz, Esq., Senior Attorney, New Jersey Lawyer Assistance Program, NJ
• Rev. Janet Jacobs B.A., CCGSO, IGCCB, Board of Directors, PA
• Rex Stock, President & CEO, RDS, Inc.
• Robert Ladouceur, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Laval, Ontario, Canada
• Roger Gros, Publisher, Global Gaming Business, CEO, iGamingPlayer.com, Owner, Casino Connection International, NV
• Rory Reid, Ph.D., LCSW, ICGC-II, UCLA Dept of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, CA
• Rick Berman, Behavioral Health, Problem Gambling Consulting, Portland, OR
• Robert Jacobson, Executive Director, California Council on Problem Gambling, CA
• Ruben M. Robles, MS, Health Program Specialist/Educator, Office of Problem Gambling, California Department of Public Health, CA
• Scott Frederick, Former Magistrate Judge, City of Hamilton, Ohio, Boyd Law School Gaming Law Masters Candidate, NV
• Stefanie Hui, Ph.D., Court Coordinator, Gambling Treatment Diversion Court, Las Vegas, NV
• Stephen Aupy, VP of Strategic Partnerships, Gamban, England, UK
• Stephen Block, CPGC, ICGC-II, NYCPG, APTPG, President, NY Council on Problem Gambling, NY
• Steve Crosby, JD, Former Chairman Massachusetts Gaming Commission, MA
• Steve Ruddock, Editor in Chief, Gaming Law Review, Director, BettingUSA.com, MA
• Steven P. Perskie, Esq., Special Advisor, Atlantic City Mayor's Office, NJ
• Sue McNabb, JD, Executive Director, International Masters of Gaming Law, LA
• Sue Schneider, VP of Growth and Strategy, Americas at Sports Betting Community (SBC), MO
• Susan Sheridan Tucker, Executive Director, Northstar Problem Gambling Alliance, Minnesota
• Ted Hartwell, MA, Associate Research Scientist, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV
• Timothy Fong, M.D., Professor of Addiction Psychiatry, UCLA, California
• Tony O'Reilly, Gambling Addiction Counselor, Co-Author "Tony10: A Story of a Chronic Gambling Addiction", Ireland
• Tracy Parker, Director, Standards and Accreditation, Responsible Gambling Council, Ontario, Canada
• Yvonne Lis, ABA and Financial Planner, Reading PA

Read as a document rather than as a credential list, the roster is the most informative thing the campaign left behind. It shows who was willing to be named in support of a treatment-court docket in New Jersey — and the mix is the point: state treatment administrators and council directors from a dozen states, academic researchers, defence lawyers and former judges, certification-board officers, and, listed beside them, responsible-gaming officers from operators, equipment manufacturers and the trade press. A coalition assembled from both sides of the table is how this kind of court gets built, and it is also why the arguments for it tend to be framed as savings and restitution rather than as a finding about the industry. That framing, and what it leaves out, is examined in the chronicle of gambling courts.

Where the rest of the earlier record is kept

Where the earlier record is checkable it is kept rather than dropped. The dates, the courts, the certification board and the argument that was made for these courts are set out, with the photographs and credits as they were published, in the chronicle of gambling courts. What this site is, who runs it and who ran the domain before are set out in how we work and in the note on the name.