Québécois syndrome

The Québécois syndrome is an expression which tries to illustrate the dramatic consequences of a legalization of the plays of money.

For some, legalization is made without ethical consideration or Morale. On another side, the government wishes to control an illegal “industry” which functions without flancher since decades. Several affirm that the real goal is taxation on this “trade”, since it was under the cut of the Organized crime.

The expression origin of legalization, with the Quebec, of the casino S and the apparatuses of lotteries video (term shortened in ALV and sometimes called “Machines with under electronic”) had negative effects on the public health in Quebec. The term “public health” must be taken in a broad direction here, because it recovers the mental healths, emotional and, by rebound, physics.

Thousands of ALV were installed in the bar S and others flows of alcohol in Quebec. This sudden and great accessibility of ALV modified the practices of set of many Inhabitants of Quebec. By inexperience or inadvertency, the Québécois government did not put in place a prevention program and of treatment of the problems of compulsif play. There are at least two reasons in this irrefutable fact. No impact study was carried out and the government finances little the organizations which come to assistance of the alcoholic and with the drug addicts. Then, why would it finance the organizations which come to assistance of the players compulsifs? Consequently, it did not develop any measure of precaution aiming at defining parameters of an ethical nature in which could have been exerted this legalization.

Before this legalization, this activity was not very accessible to the population in general and controlled by the organized crime. The problems of pathological play became widespread by afterwards. Today, approximately 5 % of the Inhabitants of Quebec are defined themselves as players compulsifs.

The expression illustrates also the relation of economic dependence which is inevitably created between the state and its industry of the games of chance and money. Indeed, in 2005, the incomes drawn from this industry exceed the billion Canadian dollars.

The expression is also occasionally used to illustrate the conflicts of interests (proven or not) which exist between the researchers. Some are financed by the industry of the money plays, deprived or official, whereas others, not. As example, one often quotes work of a researcher in psychology which would have received, for research with which it is associated, of the million dollars of this industry.

According to Jean-Pierre Martignoni-Hutin,

for lack of a sufficient dialog (in particular between the independent groups and casinos), the powerful casinotiers groups and their trade union representations, refusing to take into account the complexity of the file, seem to want to be inserted cheaply in the “Québécois syndrome”. In Quebec, indeed, during more than ten years, it is the historical ludic operator (Lotto-Quebec) who financed and controlled the searchs and the studies for prevalence on the excessive play for the greatest benefit of the psychologist Robert Ladouceur. Jouer can harm health , Libération (December 27th, 2004)

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pathological Play

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Play Compulsif Information

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