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Gambling Can Cause 10 Problems

Gambling can cause 10 problems

As opined by ‘Keeping the Score’, gambling does not always pose
problems until one is obsessed with it. Even medicine.com acknowledges
that gambling may become compulsive and associates it with the
consequence of a mixture of natural weaknesses, thought processes and
anxiety.

Monetary Setbacks

An addicted gambler inadvertently undergoes monetary setbacks

The Minnesota Institute of Public Health states that obsessed gamblers
will find dubious ways to get a stake for gambling, even exhausting
their credit cards’ limit, taking money against their life insurance
policies, procuring loans or scrounging from other avenues. If these
monetary burdens are immense, frequently insolvency follows.

Unemployment Results

Unemployment is another effect of obsessive gambling. Getting fired
reflects on the gambler’s lack of functional ability to work, and
enhances the monetary strain on compulsive gambling.

Inattention towards Children

Addicted gamblers often mete out physical maltreatment to their children

An appraisal of the reports during a 14-month period of the Indiana’s
State’s gaming commission by ‘Focus on the Family’ exposed that
there were cases of 72 children being forgotten in casinos.

Fighting within homes

The mental stress which comes along from gambling causes fighting in the
homes.

As per Focus on Family, records show that within three years of
legalizing of gambling in Deadwood, South Dakota, there was an increase
if felonies by 40 percent, in mistreatment of children by 42 percent,
and incidents of physical beating and fighting in homes increased by 80
percent.

Separation of Couples

Addictive gambling very often leads to separation of couples. Focus on
the Family report that the National Gambling Impact Study enumerated
that the occurrence of lifetime separation among couples for compulsive
and pathological gamblers respectively were noted at 39.5 percent and
53.5 percent, while it was 18.2 percent for the non-gamblers.

Physical Violence

Many compulsive gamblers are also addicted to physical violence.

Physical abuse frequently accompanies compulsive gambling. As per the
Massachusetts Council for Compulsive gamblers 75% of all pathological
gamblers are addicted to alcohol and 38% of such gamblers use drugs.

Law-breaking

Compulsive gamblers frequently become criminals to get money for their
gambling. The Chautauqua Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Control maintain
that scams, misappropriation of funds, falsification of documents and
other forms of pilfering are regular offenses perpetuated by gamblers.

Character transformation

As gambling activities flourish, the character of the gambler can
transform. The Minnesota Institute of Public Health states that becoming
secretive and having fluctuations in dispositions are the main regular
changes.

Losing Confidence

The Chautauqua Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Council opine that
compulsive gamblers also face the problem of losing their confidence.
This in turn increases the troubles of the gambler.

Taking one’s life

Focus on Family report that nearly 20 percent of addictive gamblers will
attempt to take their own life, while 10 per cent of their spouse will
also attempt suicide.

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