“After Article 50, add the following:
«Art. 50-bis (Measures to combat gambling addiction and other gambling-related disorders)
- In order to combat pathological gambling, addiction and forms of gambling addiction, starting from the year 2024, the regions and autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano, by 31 May 2024, adopt a program of interventions to social and health care for people with gambling-related disorders. To this end, the provision of psychological support services aimed at ensuring the purposes referred to in the previous period fall within the levels of assistance referred to in the decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of 12 January 2017, published in the ordinary supplement to the Official Journal no. 65 of 18 March 2017, and, in particular, to achieve the following objectives: a) strengthen neuropsychiatry services to combat gambling addiction for all age groups, strengthening hospital care and local care, with particular reference to the semi-residential sector; b) strengthen socio-health care for people with particular forms of addiction or disorders related to gambling; c) enhance assistance for individual and collective psychological well-being, also through access to psychology and psychotherapy services in the absence of a diagnosis of mental disorders, and to address situations of psychological distress, depression and anxiety related to gambling I gamble.
- To achieve the objectives referred to in paragraph 1, a total expenditure of 20 million euros is authorized starting from the year 2024,
aimed at the recruitment of health professionals and social workers according to the methods established by article 33, paragraphs 1 and 3, of the legislative decree of 25 May 2021, n. 73, converted, with amendments, by law 23 July 2021, n. 106. Consequently, the resources allocated pursuant to article 1, paragraphs 290 and 291, of law 30 December 2021, n. 234, reported in the tables in annexes 5 and 6 annexed to the same law no. 234 of 2021, are increased by the amounts indicated, respectively, in tables A and B attached to this decree. - The regions and autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano shall provide, within the limits of 30 million euros starting from the year 2024 and for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1, a contribution to support the expenses relating to psychotherapy sessions available to specialists private individuals regularly registered in the list of psychotherapists in the register of psychologists. The contribution is set at a maximum amount of 600 euros per person. The methods of submitting the application to access the contribution, the amount of the same and the requirements, including income, for its assignment are established, within the overall limit of 30 million euros starting from the year 2023, by decree of the Minister of Health , in agreement with the Minister of Economy and Finance, to be adopted within thirty days of the date of entry into force of this law, subject to agreement within the Permanent Conference for relations between the State, the regions and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano.. The resources determined in paragraph 4 for the purposes referred to in this paragraph are divided between the regions and autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano with the decree referred to in this paragraph.
- The charges deriving from this article, equal to 50 million euros starting from the year 2024, will be provided for by corresponding reduction of the Fund referred to in article 1, paragraph 200, of law no. 23 December 2014. 190, as refinanced by article 86, paragraph 2. All the regions and autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano have access to the relevant financing, in derogation of the legislative provisions which establish, for special autonomies, the contribution of the region or autonomous province to current healthcare financing".
This is what the senators propose Srollini e Paita (IV) in an amendment (50.0.65) to the Maneuver.
