LEGAL PRINCIPLES FOR ENSURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF FIGHTING GAMBLING ADDICTION (LUDOMANIA) IN UKRAINE
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Dec 30, 2024
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the legislation of Ukraine on the search for legal positions to ensure the implementation of the principle of fighting gambling addiction (ludomania) in the activities of various state bodies. The author emphasizes that with the legalization of the gambling business in 2020, Ukraine began to pay attention to the issues of the gaming environment. But the last game addiction is a mental illness, the principle of "fighting game addiction" is incorrect, the next disease can be diagnosed and treated, reduce its spread in society, but not fight it. The author concludes that a lot has been done by Ukraine in 2024: the NSDC (National Security and Defense Council) decision on the protection of gamblers was adopted, which provides for its own plan at the levels of various state bodies to help gamblers with gambling addiction. This year, the Ministry of Health adopted a protocol for the treatment of gaming interaction, which should significantly improve the availability of psychiatric care and the need for gaming addiction of its quality. It is expected to adopt a standard for the provision of social services for socio-psychological rehabilitation of persons with gaming addiction, which will contribute to the resolution of difficult life situations in the player and his return to normal life after treatment. Problematic issues today remain the protection of players who play illegally gambling, after which such players are brought to administrative responsibility and cannot be recognized as victims in criminal proceedings initiated for engaging in illegal gambling business, so this legislation needs to be updated.
How to Cite
Denysenko, O. (2024). LEGAL PRINCIPLES FOR ENSURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF FIGHTING GAMBLING ADDICTION (LUDOMANIA) IN UKRAINE. Baltic Journal of Legal and Social Sciences, (4), 34-39. https://doi.org/10.30525/2592-8813-2024-4-4
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Keywords
gambling business, gambling addiction, ludomania player protection, legal principles
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9. Pro derzhavne rehulyuvannya diyalnosti shchodo orhanizatsiyi ta provedennya azartnykh ihor: Zakon Ukrayiny vid 14 lypnya 2020 r. №768-IX [On state regulation of activities related to the organization and conduct of gambling: Law of Ukraine dated July 14, 2020 No. 768-IX]. Retrieved from: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/768-20#Text. [in Ukrainian].
10. Proekt nakazu Ministerstva sotsialʹnoyi politky Ukrayiny « Pro zatverdzhennya Derzhavnoho standartu sotsialʹnoyi posluhy sotsialʹno-psykholohichnoyi reabilitatsiyi osib iz ihrovoyu zalezhnistyu» vid 09.07.2024 [Draft order of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine "On approval of the State Standard of Social Services for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Persons with Gaming Addiction" 09.07.2024] Retrieved from: https://www.msp.gov.ua/projects/898/. [in Ukrainian].
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13. Toporetska Z. M. (2013) Pryynyattya zakonodavstva u sferi hralʹnoho biznesu yak efektyvnyy mekhanizm borotʹby z nezakonnymy azartnymy ihramy [Adoption of legislation in the field of gambling business as an effective mechanism for combating illegal gambling]. Naukovyy visnyk Uzhhorodsʹkoho natsionalʹnoho universytetu. Seriya PRAVO [Scientific Bulletin of the Uzhhorod National University. The RIGHT series.], 22. (I) 3, 115–118. [in Ukrainian].
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