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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a reminder to healthcare professionals on prescribing Aripiprazole, a drug which can lead patients to develop compulsive behaviours such as problem gambling. Branded as ‘Abilify’ or ‘Aristada’, Aripiprazole can be prescribed by GPs and healthcare professionals to treat schizophrenia and extreme cases of bipolar disorder. However, as noted by the …

Gambling has been recognised as a ‘related factor’ in the UK government’s new strategy to reduce suicide rates by improving prevention and early intervention through the NHS and wider local public services. This morning, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) published details of its new “five-year strategy to reduce suicide rates”. DHSC Undersecretary for Mental Health, Maria Caulfield, …

As the end of April dawns, UK gambling’s purgatory may soon be over. Regulus Partners reflects on the winding journey of the Gambling Review and how its original mandate was altered by backdrop of chaos across the government’s ranks. After more false dawns than the Carnival of Las Palmas, it seems that the publication of the Government’s White Paper on …

Despite UK gambling being dragged through the political storms of a torrid March fall-out. Regulus Partners states the House of Lords should save itself from an unwarranted debate on which government department takes reign of gambling’s regulatory oversight.   This week, members of the House of Lords will attempt to revive the idea that gambling policy should be the responsibility …