Problem gambling: Why do some people become addicted?
In recent years, campaigns have focused on fixed odds betting terminals, with the maximum stake cut from £100 to £2. These machines have been described as the"crack cocaine of gambling" and had made it easy for users to lose a lot of money quickly.
The focus is now shifting to online and mobile gambling, which allows people to gamble 24 hours a day - often with the possibility of setting up automatic bets.and teams supported by millions of people.Mobile gambling means individuals can easily lose large sums of money. There is also the risk of children using stolen details to gamble online, with one studyis being used to target poorer people, who tend to spend a higher proportion of their income on gambling.
One way to reduce the risks could be for problem gamblers to be recognised by the same algorithms used to offer rewards on gaming websites. Instead, they could be offered targeted support, and potentially have their access to these sites restricted., like smoking and physical inactivity, which also disproportionately affect poorer people.
National campaigns about the dangers of gambling, similar to those used to combat obesity and smoking, could be launched, and the issue highlighted by health professionals, debt advisers and within the school curriculum. In the future, we may have to ask ourselves as a society whether the benefits of promoting gambling outweigh the harms.Dr Ricardo Twumasi is a lecturer in Organisational Psychiatry & Psychology at King's College London. You can follow him on Twitter
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