Today it is known to one and all that gambling addiction has become a problem of a huge scale. So let us just enlist some of the statistics that we have on gambling addiction.
The gambling industry has developed ten times since 1975. 15 million people exhibit at least one sign of gambling addiction Two-thirds of the adult population bet in a calendar year. Gambling earnings in casinos exceed $30 billion while lottery proceeds are 17 billion dollars annually.” Players” with family earnings under $10,000 bet almost thrice as much on lotteries as affluent people. Gambling amid adolescent people is ever on the rise though the data furnished by various sources differ from each other. There are roughly 260 Mobile casino on Indian occupancies. Online gambling has just about doubled each year since 1997 – which in 2001 their business proceeds exceeded two billion dollars. The Internet claims hundreds of popular sport-related gambling sites. In reference to the American Psychological Association the Internet is capable of being as addictive as alcohol, drugs, and gambling. After the casinos opened in Atlantic City, the total count of criminal activity within a thirty-mile radius increased by a hundred percent. The typical debt sustained by a male pathological gambler in the United States of America is a variant somewhere between 55000 and 90000 dollars. The mean rate of divorce for compulsive gamblers is almost double that of non-gamblers. The rate of suicide for problem gamblers is twenty folds larger than that of non-gamblers. Sixty-five percent of gambling addicts commit crimes to maintain their wish for gambling.
But the fact is that it is about all the statistics at our disposal and is that enough? The answer obviously is in the negative. This is too little knowledge to have in order to declare full blooded war against gambling addiction. The time has come and we need to worry sooner rather than later.



