CRJE - CRESA - CRDASS

The Federative Institute of Behavioral Addictions is composed of three centers: the Reference Center on Excessive Gambling (CRJE), the Reference Center on Excessive Food and Sports Habits (CRESA) and the Reference Center on Emotional, Sexual and Sectarian Dependencies (CRDASS). These three centers have common goals and missions.

 

Creating the Reference Center on Excessive Gambling (CRJE)

The Reference Center on Excessive Gambling (CRJE) was the first component of the Federative Institute of Behavioral Addictions, and was created in 2008 at the initiative of Professor Jean-Luc Vénisse, a psychiatrist at Nantes University Hospital, thanks to the financial support of Nantes University Hospital and of two French betting operators, La Française des Jeux and the PMU.

 

The Reference Center on Excessive Gambling was the first structure in France to develop research, training and information activities on excessive and pathological gambling. It’s directed to gamblers, non-gamblers, family and friends, health and social work professionals, along with private betting operators involved in responsible gambling.
It places its action in the framework of the 2007-2011 National Plan for addiction treatment and prevention and in line with the recommendations of INSERM collective expertise published in July 2008.

 

Creating the other two centers

Three years since the Reference Center on Excessive Gambling was created, structured and developed, the decision was made in 2011 to create the Federative Institute of Behavioral Addictions. It is composed of the three centers:

The scope of the Federative Institute of Behavioral Addictions has broadened to all addictions without substance use, such as pathological gambling, video games addiction, compulsive buying, eating disorders, exercise dependence, sexual addiction and emotional dependence, sectarian dependence…

 

The objectives of the CRJE, CRESA and CRDASS

• Improve the state of knowledge in the field of behavioral addictions. The goal is to contribute to a better knowledge of the vulnerability and risk factors that intervene in the addictive process without any substance use ..
• Spread the knowledge resulting from the progress of national and international research among health and social professionals to improve the prevention and treatment of behavioral addictions.
• Spread information among manufacturers and gambling operators so that they might design their products in a sustainable and responsible way.

 

The missions of the CRJE, CRESA and CRDASS

To conduct their missions, the three centers (Reference Center on Excessive Gambling (CRJE), Reference Center on Excessive Food and Sports Habits (CRESA) and Reference Center on Emotional, Sexual and Sectarian Dependencies (CRDASS)) are built on:

• research
• training
• information