PGF Services – National Office
Counselling Advice Support
About PGF Services – National Office
Free, professional and confidential counselling services throughout NZ
If you are seeing people present with the following issues:
- Depression and/or anxiety
- Stomach upsets
- Headaches
- Suicidal thoughts or attempts at suicide
- Harmful alcohol consumptions
- Drug use
- Family violence/family breakdown
- Chronic debt
- Poverty-related illnesses
…it could be caused by harmful gambling
PROBLEM GAMBLERS ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO VISIT THEIR GP, COMPARED TO NON-PROBLEM GAMBLERS.
PGF recommends GPs include a gambling risk assessment when taking a patients medical history.