Topic: Who are the most vulnerable (Read 1595 times)

As someone who lives in a low middle income country, I'd say that low income earners are the most vulnerable. In my estimation, low income earners are the target of gambling advertising and marketing. The specific type of gambling being sports betting. Casinos are not popular here so it's mostly bet shops online and offline that you find low income earners hanging around.

Another vulnerable group are those who have low education that is, those with high school diploma and lower. In addition to this group we have those who are single, divorced, or separated. Gambling will fill in the vacuum that loneliness has left.

And yet another group are those who are retired.

All these groups I have mentioned are not from any research publications but by simply observing them in my locality.

Gambling addicts suffer more than drug addicts because when someone is addicted to drugs, it becomes public because of which there is pressure from the family to come out of this addiction.  But when someone is addicted to online gambling, even if it is revealed, he later gambles on hiddenbabe so in the end, he cannot get out of the addiction.  A gambling addict can completely ruin a person and after ruining him financially, he gets involved in various types of illegal activities.  Gambling tortured him a lot mentally during that time

Well as a teenager and children, maybe environment can play a role but I don't believe adults will be easily carried away into what they don't want to do. There are people who have friends that are smokers but they don't smoke even a stick of cigarettes, also with those that find joy in drinking. So we can't generalized environmental factors as a sure inebriation to gambling. My point is parenting is important in a child's life. The child needs adequate care and attention from the family for them not to go astral.

Gambling has one of the most influences on people, people are going to gamble just because their friends are doing it so they do not be left out of the funs that they think their friends are having. It is because of gambling influences that we have high rate of underage gamblers losing money everyday to gambling and destroying their life because some of them get into debts that it takes a lifetime of working to pay off the debts and some can never pay them off therefore they continue to gamble in hopes of being lucky someday but it nevers happens. The environment that we stay has an Important role to play in our life therefore if you can keep your kids away from environment known to be filled with gamblers, please do to keep your kids safe.

If you are looking for an opportunity to make an additional profit and you think that gambling can help you in this, be prepared for the fact that you will lose your deposit. It's not a factory or an office, it's a place where people come to relax and get some adrenaline.

Gambling is a lot easier to access now than before. So it is no surprise if more people find themselves gambling. Unfortunately, not a lot of us can be responsible enough to prevent ourselves from falling into deep addiction. This probes the question, who are the most vulnerable to falling into a gambling addiction?..

Yes, it can be said that these are people who are easily influenced by anything around them, when they see most of their friends continuing their education to college, they will also follow those steps but not accompanied by intention and sincerity so that in the end it only makes them waste money and time but do not get anything in terms of knowledge, meaning yes I can also confirm the core of your idea that people who are easily influenced by their environment are likely to be very easy to eventually be exposed to gambling when they are in an environment that is quite active towards gambling, it is quite unfortunate but yes, that is the fact.

It's true that the most addicted people initially had pre-existing mental conditions, if not their common sense should tell them that they cannot win back their losses as they keep on gambling to recover them back. It's a norm that a hard drug addict will gamble, because he will always love to gamble for profit in order to buy more drugs.

Teens are copy cats, they do whatever they see on tv or on social media without knowing the consequences attached to it. Some of them might want to do it for fun, but along the line, they become addicted they don't have anyone to help them.

In most countries, kids get addicted to smartphones too easily. Even toddlers watch YouTube the whole day. My three-year-old daughter can open YouTube and watch videos and reels. I assume she will learn more as she grows. One day, she might open restricted content that she shouldn't. This can happen. But as a parent, we have to be careful.

Parenting could never be that perfect on which there would really be those some part of family members will really be that dealing into something specially on gambling specially into those people who dont have

This will come back to each individual, because I see many people who pursue higher education just because they want a diploma, or a piece of paper that shows proof that they have studied at university. Yes, in studying they are not serious and spend more time playing. I'm not saying all, but there are some people I see like that. Well, people like this are actually vulnerable to something they encounter, I mean they will be easily carried away by their environment. I saw it because it happened to someone I knew and I happened to know him closely.

In general, this is a true statement, education is important, although sometimes there are exceptions when a person who has completed only a few grades of school can become successful, but these are some exceptions to the rule, because most people without a good education will find it difficult to achieve anything. There has always been little awareness about gambling, more often influencers show casinos as an opportunity to win big money and there will always be those who believe them and want to win too.

Lack of education will only lead a person to poverty, so in the end ignorance and also the economic pressures that exist make a person have to take shortcuts to improve their living standards including gambling, in this case I think the need for measures such as banning gambling operations in the community and raising awareness about the risks of gambling can be very helpful to reduce addiction besides low education is the main factor that should be resolved, Regarding the view that gambling can be a way to make money, this can indeed be a trap for many people, especially those in difficult financial conditions, so this mindset is difficult to change without a fundamental change in their economic and educational conditions.

I think society also have important role to play here when it comes to exposure to gambling and other social life. I know some societies that have unanimously agreed never to allow any gambling operator to operate or open a gambling business center in their communities. I know the existence of online gambling will make it more difficult for them to combat but at least that measure will minimize the rate at which their young generations are exposed to gambling.

Gambling is actually fun if people can change their mentality towards it and realize that it is an avenue to make money. Unfortunately, this mentality can not be easily do away with because of the financial class people find themselves in and think gambling will probably rescue them from that condition.

On the other hand, what about those who already have the money and love gambling, do you think they are not vulnerable to becoming addicted to gambling too?

Well, to be honest with you, I think the rich who already have a lot of money and love spending time gambling are more vulnerable to becoming gambling addict than those who are poor and have to work hard to raise the money they spend on gambling.
Atleast, it should be known that the poor man have some restrictions here, and that is that he or she wont be able to gamble at all times due to lack of funds, but the rich man is exposed to gambling at all time he or she wants to, no restrictions of any kind in terms of finance, so there is every possibility that, he or she will be inclined to becoming addicted than the poor man.

In addition most of the poor are not students of moderated gambling, and they're mostly uneducated too, hence their increased vulnerability to grabbling addiction. No matter the level of enlightenment provided to these people, if the condition of their living isn't improved and they're empowered on a personal level, they would pay deaf ears to all awareness and jump back to gambling as the only remedy to their lack of funds.

Gambling is a lot easier to access now than before. So it is no surprise if more people find themselves gambling. Unfortunately, not a lot of us can be responsible enough to prevent ourselves from falling into deep addiction. This probes the question, who are the most vulnerable to falling into a gambling addiction?

We already know that less privileged people are more prone to getting addicted to gambling with the involvement of financial reward. They are the ones chasing more wins because they actually need the money. The more money they get, the deeper they get into the addiction.

Another demographic that is more likely to get addicted to gambling are adolescents. Adolescents are aged 12-18. The rise of online casinos made way to more kids getting access into gambling. It is said that male adolescents are the ones most recorded to have ended up addicted in gambling. Their addiction is usually associated with sports  and mobile games betting.

Lastly, the most vulnerable to falling into a gambling addiction are those already suffering from pre-existing mental conditions. About 4% of people being treated for substance use also have gambling disorder, as do nearly 7% of psychiatric inpatients and up to 7% of people with Parkinson’s disease. An estimated 96% of people with gambling problems have at least one other psychiatric disorder.

I am sharing this to raise awareness so more people are aware whether they fall under these categories I mentioned and may have high chances of becoming a gambling addict. Let’s keep ourselves informed and in check. Not only ourselves but our loved ones as well.