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National Gambling Impact


by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
Oct 8, 2006

 

 

Gambling Impact:

Though gambling is considered as a fun activity but gambling addiction has a bad impact on gamblers, their family and society as well. Gambling is a good leisure game if you played it just for fun. But when you become addicted with it, then it is a problem for you. The adverse effects of gambling disturb you in your family and work place.

However, it is the family who finally has to bear the ultimate outcome of pathological gambling and paid for it. Family members frequently experience the trauma of divorce, child abuse and neglect, and domestic violence due to gambling addiction problem.

Specific Impacts of Gambling:

There are some specific impact of gambling as per studies and research. These common impacts are:

Suicide:

Suicide is the very common problem with the addicted gamblers. According to the National Council on Problem Gambling, approximately one in five pathological gamblers attempts suicide and it is noted that the suicide rate among pathological gamblers is higher than for any other addictive disorder. After continuous loosing in gambling or huge loss the gamblers become frustrated and attempt to commit suicide.

Divorce:

Many families of pathological gamblers suffer from a variety of financial, physical, and emotional problems that may leads to divorce. A nationwide survey in USA by the National Gambling Impact Study Commission reported that respondents representing 2 million adults identified a spouse’s gambling as a significant factor in a prior divorce.

Homelessness:

Homelessness is another big problem arise due gambling behavior. Gamblers are often found as homeless. The Atlantic City Rescue Mission reported that 22 percent of its clients are homeless due to a gambling problem. In USA you find more individual as homeless only for gambling problem.

Child Abuse and Neglect:

As compulsive gamblers are not serious about their family and children therefore such children often prone to suffer abuse, as well as neglect. Sometimes children have died due to parent’s pathological gambling impact on their family. Most of the child in many of the states feel insecure and isolated because parental addiction on gambling.

Domestic Violence:

Domestic violence is another serious offence which often arises due to pathological gambling. Since 1996 domestic violence murders in at least 11 states have been traced to gambling problems. Now problem gambling is as much a risk factor for domestic violence as alcohol abuse as studied done by University of Nebraska Medical Center.

So, we can understand what a bad impact of gambling has! Therefore we people must conscious that gambling should exist only as a fun activity and not as a universal problem for us.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


                                      

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