Gambling Addiction and Substance Misuse Among Adolescents in Jamaica
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This article seeks to highlight the problems of gambling addiction and substance misuse among Jamaica’s adolescents and how RISE Life Management Services has been tackling these issues through our targeted prevention and intervention services over the past twenty-eight years. It also seeks to show how toxic masculinity and perceived gender norms result in the inability of “the forgotten boy” to address his emotional problems, which oftentimes are some of the underlying contributing factors to his addictive disorders.
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Jhanille A. Brooks, MA, is a rehabilitation and mental health counselor with ten years of experience in the field. A mental health advocate and lobbyist, she is passionate about building awareness on the importance of being mentally healthy and is keen to see greater improvement in the treatment, care, and support for the mentally ill.
Sonita M. Abrahams is the executive director of RISE Life Management Services, an NGO situated in inner-city Kingston, catering to at-risk youth and other vulnerable populations. She received a Hubert Humphrey Fellowship to Johns Hopkins University in 1993, and went on to complete the master of health sciences in 1995. Abrahams was awarded the Order of Distinction by the Governor General of Jamaica in 2017 for her distinguished career in community development, youth employment, and services for addictive disorders.
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