The placement in a residential facility for Gambling Disorder was implemented thanks to the experimental funds provided by Lombardy Region Resolution No. XI / 585 of 1/10/2018 (1), and it has allowed the patient with pathology not falling normatively under Article 94 of Presidential Decree 309/90 (2), to undertake a residential pathway as an alternative measure to punishment.
The multidimensional assessment implemented by the SERD prison team UOC Dipendenze ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII of Bergamo, through innovative clinical psychodiagnostic tools integrated with the pre-existing available tool, has allowed the drafting of a specific Diagnostic Therapeutic Care Pathway and, after validation by the Health Protection Agency of the province of Bergamo, has made it possible to send to a residential facility for Gambling Disorder of the patient in an alternative measure to punishment.
The work is an expression of the capacity for synergy and integration between the private service, which has seen the emergence of residential facilities for pathological gamers, with the public service of evaluation and treatment of the Lombard ASST in addition to the fundamental intervention of the competent Territorial Health Protection Agency and the Judicial Authority through which it was possible to give an adequate response in a different sphere of addiction currently normatively recognized only to drug and alcohol dependent person.