Best solution to handle gambling addiction, in a country. - page 4.

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Quote from: rosezionjohn on August 03, 2019, 03:54:31 PM

This is more of a personal problem. Aside from regulating the gambling industry, I don't know if there's anything else they can do to prevent the addiction. Maybe requiring casinos to impose limitations on how much a gambler can bet?

Maybe that's one solution but I doubt casinos will limit how much you will spend on them. I have never heard a casino limiting a certain gambler as they want to spend you more on them. But if in case in the future, they decided to help an addicted gambler, what they can do is give certain limits to them and be firm with that decision. And all the surrounding casinos should do the same. Because if not, the gambler will just hop on in each and every casino he can play with.

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I don't think there's a formula to handle this, because a person who are addicted to gambling is the same as a person who are addicted to alcohol or smoking, and governments and families are trying to deal with this for a long time
Some people are more easy to become addict, and the only thing that comes in my head in psychological treatment
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Any country that prohibits gambling would cut its own meat.
And everywhere you look at it says "gambling can be addictive, play at your own risk"!

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I don't think a country can introduce a one size fits all solution to the problem of gambling addiction. Each gambler has their own habit of playing thus rendering some of the steps not applicable to some people who have different approach in gambling. The government can ban gambling any way they like, but if the problem goes deeper than the roots of the addict is, then I don't think there's really a way to control it in a large sample in a single country. Best thing to do is to just put rehabilitation centers and treat gambling addiction as somewhat identical to mental health problems and help the gambler go from there, but that's just my opinion.

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This is more of a personal problem. Aside from regulating the gambling industry, I don't know if there's anything else they can do to prevent the addiction. Maybe requiring casinos to impose limitations on how much a gambler can bet?

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Gamblers itself are the problem.

No matter how serious the government to stop all gambling activities to save people from being an unresponsible, shit, addicted gambler in the future, we have a human nature that we will do anything just to make us a fun or finds an easy way to make a big money.

In case of a total gambling ban, only the regulated gambling companies will be closed including online bettings. However, there are other gambling types that are not regulated and that will still continue.

There are gambling rehabilitation centers on some of the country that is putting so much effort to save an addicted gambler. But for a start, family and friends of those gambling addict must start the first move to help their loved ones survived the worst effect of doing gambling.

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I don't think my country can ban gambling as one of the sports betting company's owner is a member of legislation. Some of the people making laws also have gambling websites and businesses. In a way, I don't see anything wrong with gambling or betting as many people especially the owner treat it as business and before you became addicted to it you must have taken it too far.

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That's right, but gambling will probably never be banned in countries because they also benefit with taxes and royalties.
In addition to all the gambling addiction that exists in this business, there are plenty of facilities to treat them if anyone is really stuck in the gambling addiction.
Most everything is controlled by the business industry.

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Banning gambling is not going to solve the problem indeed. People just go to the other countries and play there and when they do that the government is going to lose lots of tax income too.

I believe it is all about educating people. It people can grow a well established consciousness over the years since the day they were born, it is easy to deal with any kind of addiction.

Addicts usually have one thing in common, they have no idea what they are doing. It is like there is a barrier between their eyes and brains which causes a malfunction. That's my observation anyway.

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Considering the gambling addiction ratio in a country is increasing rapidly, what are the best possible solutions the citizens or government of that nation can implement to deal with the problem. Before you jump right into suggesting, the government should ban/tag gambling related activities as illegal in the country, you should understand that running away from a problem don't actually solve that problem. Beside proposing a ban on gambling only encourages the citizens of that nation to gamble illegally.

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