The Big Picture
Gambling in Perspective

7th Conference of SNSUS
19th and 20th of May 2009
at Marina Congress Center, Helsinki, Finland

Thank you again!

Here you find the program and the presentations from the conference >
Here is pictures from the conference >

The conference in Helsinki was a success. We like to thank all of you who were there of making it happen. There 153 of you in Helsinki during these two days.

The thing that was really delighting was the amount of new Nordic research that we could present at the conference. You can now see most of the presentations here on our web pages. Just click at the header.

We were proud to have presenting such prominent figures of the field like Robert Ladouceur and Mark Griffiths. The Preconference workshop by Robert Ladouceur was an absolute success by all means. Mark Griffiths as always made excellent shows on his presentations. As did also all other fine presenters in the conference.

Problem gambling was covered from many angles. Electronic gambling machines got their part as well as the Internet gambling. This conference was perhaps more about treatment than its predecessors. And it is really fine since we now have much more Nordic studies done on treatment.

Gambling legislations in all Nordic countries are going through some major changes at the present. This and the challenges that it means to prevention of gambling related harm were also in the focus.

The evening program with Welcoming reception of the City of Helsinki and especially the spectacular Gala Dinner at Grand Casino Helsinki were highlights of the conference.

The Stipendium of SNSUS was this time awarded to Hans Olav Faekjaer from Norway of his life work on preventing gambling related harms.

This was a pleasant and industrious conference. And it seemed that people made use of the time here in between sessions to mix and make new friend.

We like also to thank our sponsors of making this conference possible. The organising of this conference would not have been possible without your generous contributions.

The board of SNSUS wishes you all of a very pleasant summer and we hope to see you at

The 8th Conference of SNSUS in Reykjavik 7-8 June 2011.