Topic: Who are the most vulnerable - page 6. (Read 1602 times)

It is a well known fact that most poor people are way to much vulnerable to gambling addiction and I don't blame them from a certain point of view, the society, the government has not done quite a lot for them that they have reside to this venture called gambling and we all know how dangerous that is. Even middle class can fall into this although lower in number than poor people these can fall in even deeper addiction as these type of persons are trying to come out from the middle class sector and are fighting to become rich in a fast way and this is in my opinion the most vulnerable group of all when they hit the lows of gambling addiction. In rich people I have seen addiction in very very few people to not say that I have not seen it anywhere where I live or under my friends and colleagues.

Those who struggle with everyday economic and financial problems often complain that their situation makes them very vulnerable to gambling. Desperation has made them narrow-minded and makes gambling a place to answer all the economic and financial problems they experience.

Here in the US casinos work hard to get you addicted. Free drinks and comped rooms are common at physical casinos, across the country. Have a buddy who always had a free room at our fav casino in St. Louis because he typically always lost more than he gained, so comped rooms are a “we are sorry. Here’s a gift”

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.

Generally I would say that anyone who by virtue of chance of spending more of their time in to gambling than any other thing or activity are more prone and vulnerable to gambling addiction in irrespective of your social stratification and age bracket but yeah undoubtedly those who have less activities that fetch them money tend to engage themselves more in to gambling with the aim of winning a jackpot that will change their financial status with such mindset at every point in time they have money the next thing that comes to their mind is gambling, and with the such mindset of gambling to maximize profits other than fun, even when they are losing they keep chasing losses and ends up being addicted.

The people that are more vulnerable to being addicted to gambling are poor and middle class people and I assume we know the reason why it's so. In the world's population, majority of people are poor and suffering and out of those poor individuals, there's a large population who are into gambling and their reason is to see a financial breakthrough, that's why they get addicted because they believe that gambling can easily earn them a quick cash, which is why they are vulnerable. Although I don't have any data to back of my claim but I know that the number of rich people in the world who are gamblers are not much compare to non rich gamblers.

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.

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.

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People who are most vounarable to fall into addiction are those who sees gambling as an option to eradicate poverty or sees it as a way of becoming rich too quickly. I had quite some numbers of friends who becomes addicted because they could hardly find a suitable job to leave the life they expected. After so many years of going to school and graduating without work cause them to become addicted. Because after finding several job and couldn't see any one they accept gambling as a second choice. Now gambling has become a pert of them even leaving it becomes a problem. Now even if they get a good paying job now they will still spend all to gambling.

I can say joblessness and poverty is the most vounarable thing that Leeds to addiction.

Vulnerability is beyond just been able to gamble responsibly, before getting to the point of gambling responsibly, there have to be some points where you will have to be probably gambling or be prone to it then you begin to build a system around your habit to be responsible enough and in that case you have already been vulnerable and probably fallen to the vulnerability at that point so mostly people who has got a lot of spare time can be considered vulnerable, the aspect where we may have to consider so well in your point of view will have to be around the people who could get addicted and pay attention to them because they may lack the discipline to keep them away from getting to that point.

Gambling addiction is not by whom we are or the status we have, anyone can fall under this category as long as they are not gambling the same way required of them as a responsible gambler, sometimes we also know how wreckless we do appears when it comes to gambling, should we now take this as our own personal vulnerability or that of the gambling platform in preventing us from getting addicted, when we are to control and monitor how we are gambling by ourselves, the most vulnerable are those not being able to control their emotions when gambling and are not gambling responsibly.

I choose to disagree on this. The less privileged people that I have come into contact with—most of them don't even gamble at all and talk more about getting addicted; they are more focused on things of life—real-life hustle that can give them money than trying to waste the little that they will use to feed themselves on gambling, whose outcome is not secured. There is no doubt that some might pick interest in gambling, but generalising it is wrong.

I choose to disagree on this. The less privileged people that I have come into contact with—most of them don't even gamble at all and talk more about getting addicted; they are more focused on things of life—real-life hustle that can give them money than trying to waste the little that they will use to feed themselves on gambling, whose outcome is not secured. There is no doubt that some might pick interest in gambling, but generalising it is wrong.