Review

Since 2020, gambling business has been allowed in Ukraine. As you know, the gambling business is a high-risk type of activity, due to the fact that gambling can form a person’s gambling addiction, but effective comprehensive measures to protect society from gambling addiction have not yet been implemented. The purpose of the article is determined by the author to study the problems of administrative and legal means of protecting society from gambling addiction and the formation of scientific proposals for the improvement of state policy in the field of protecting society from gambling addiction. The article analyzes pronounced game addiction as a medical diagnosis – a disease, and focuses on the incorrect formulation of the principle of state policy as a fight against game addiction (ludomania), because the disease needs to be diagnosed and treated. Having analyzed the provisions of the Law «On State Regulation of Activities in the Organization and Conduct of Gambling Games» and the decision of KRAIL on issues of combating gambling addiction, it is concluded that the state has not implemented all the mechanisms for the protection of society provided for by law, and KRAIL has transferred part of its powers to the organizers of gambling games. The author emphasizes that state policy should be aimed at protecting society from gaming addiction by administrative and legal means. First of all, the author proposes to adopt at the state level a program (strategy) for the protection of society from gaming addiction, which would provide for a comprehensive approach to this problem at the level of not only KRAIL, but the involvement of all central executive authorities within the limits and in the manner prescribed by law.