From the Editor

Is Gambling an Addiction like Drug and Alcohol Addiction? Developing Realistic and Useful Conceptions of Compulsive Gambling
By Stanton Peele

Classification of Pathological Gambling as an Impulse Disorder
By Mark W. Langewisch and G. Ron Frisch

Ambient Frontiers: The El Rancho Vegas and Hotel Last Frontier, Strip Pioneers
By David G Schwartz

Beliefs and Value Systems: Understanding all Australians
By Diane Gabb

Chips, Chatter and Friends
By Barry Fritz

Problem Gambling Service
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Betting the House: Winners, Losers and the Politics of Canada's Gambling Obsession (1999) by Brian Hutchinson
Reviewed by Lisa Schmidt

Diary of a Powerful Addiction (1999) by Alexandra King
Reviewed by Roberta Boughton

Viva Rock Vegas
Reviewed by Nigel Turner