In epidemiological research, correctly classifying and labeling positive cases of a health condition is crucial for researchers and service providers to identify and treat individuals. However, sometimes the label becomes a pejorative term that stigmatizes the person with the condition. There are many examples of health condition labels that have served to isolate and ostracize the afflicted within societies (e.g., leper, addict, alcoholic, schizophrenic, AIDS victim, pedophile), thus adding to the individual’s torment. While the PGSI utilizes convenient labels to categorize individuals who have some severity of gambling problem (e.g., low risk, moderate risk, and problem gambler), it must be stressed that the focus should be on the problem behaviour and consequences of that behaviour, rather than on the individual, per se. This is a very important distinction that will hopefully serve to focus public health discussion, communiqués, and intervention strategies on the issue of problem gambling behaviour, thus mitigating the potential harmful effect the problem gambling label may have for the individual.