Gambling addiction becomes more popular with young people over time

[hacekd]

The urge to participate in risky activities is an intrinsic part of moving into adulthood. Take gambling from them, and the same adolescents will start doing drugs, alcohol, engage in random sex etc. Also, they are extremely sensitive in this age, so you can't fake it for them, you can't just feed them with "simulated gambling and other forms of gambling-like behaviors", like the article suggests, because that would be a pill they won't swallow. They need something real. They want to do something what adults really do, and not just average adults, but the most daring ones, from their point of view.

In short, eradicating a problem, gambling in this instance, you can cause more problems to emerge, which are more severe than the eradicated one. So, forbidding your child to gamble or to drink beer, think twice with what he/she can replace it.

Excessive effort to make money. If you run out of money, gambling addicts won't stop. He would instead look for ways to earn more money, even in an excessive way. The most extreme way to try is to borrow money from loan sharks or steal.

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[The Sceptical Chymist]

After recent changes to the merit system, I am trying to do something useful and contribute to the forum. And this is what I collect, hopefully it will change my merit.

It would be much better if you didn't preface a post like this by stating what your real intentions are, i.e., to earn merits.  This would justifiably be construed as merit begging.

Everyone here knows gambling CAN be a problem, just like alcohol, sex, and drugs have the potential to be problems.  The fact is that most people who engage in all of these activities don't develop addictions.

There's already lots of help for problem gamblers, like Gamblers Anonymous and a tip I often hear around bitcointalk is that if you're a compulsive gambler you shouldn't be hanging around casinos, playing cards, or participating in discussions about gambling (unless they're related to how to overcome the problem of gambling addiction).

It's not a new issue here.

[Lazada]

This is a bad thing because young people should have a useful and much better activity. Gambling games are things that have a bad impact, especially the effects of addiction generated in gambling can damage a person's mindset. When someone has experienced addiction, they will have difficulty quitting and most people will experience destruction in their lives when they cannot control the effects of specific addiction.

[pixie85]

Actually not only young people who are addicted to gambling, there are still many senior gamblers who are still playing. Because actually the goal of the gamblers is the same, namely winning and earning money.

In Asia there's plenty of old gamblers. Old people aren't working and have a lot of free time so they start spending it playing cards or mahjong and get hooked. There's no rule that says you have to be young to be a gambler and young people in general have much less money than old people who don't need fast cars or new houses but have pension.

[worldofcoins]

I have the feeling that  this is becoming more of a trend now with more young people and more time on their hands, they can easily be turned into such societal orders, taking up gambling.

[sunsilk]

Greed is a normal behavior so that's why it still dominates a person when it comes to money matters and money games such as gambling. And as we see opportunity in gambling because of those experiences that we had and we are able to make money there, that opportunity won't be removed on our minds.

Our mindsetting is its very likely that we can make money easily through gambling. It is easy money and everyone thinks that taking up the risk is worth over time until we become broke. And the younger we started to gamble it will develop until we grow old but this situation varies from people who are going through this type of addiction.

[Bellator]

I have the feeling that  this is becoming more of a trend now with more young people and more time on their hands, they can easily be turned into such societal orders, taking up gambling.

This isn't a good scenario if we seen our youth over drowned with gambling the same ways as the adults did. There should be a regulations or control over the gambling players, because they might be addicted with such lucky profitable games. Their studies or financial dependency might be affected so well, if ever they can't control their actions specially the emotional drive.

[maydna]

I have the feeling that  this is becoming more of a trend now with more young people and more time on their hands, they can easily be turned into such societal orders, taking up gambling.

I think if this continues, there will be more addicting gambler from the young people and they are difficult to leave the gambling places because they still want to make money from the gambling games. Maybe they are like playing gambling is because they can play the games in every place they want and right now, they can use crypto for the bets, so I think they don't have any problem if they're going to play the games. But we still need to explain to them that playing gambling is not good for them and it can make them lose big money and they should listen to this if they are a concern with their own life and their family.

[richminded]

Not everyone is aware of this, maybe young people focus only on making money and they forget to control their emotion. The volume of young addicted on gambling is really increasing and we cannot stop them from doing that, I just hope that they are being guided by a good people so they will not be broke in the future.

I have the feeling that  this is becoming more of a trend now with more young people and more time on their hands, they can easily be turned into such societal orders, taking up gambling.

Young people can easily be influenced by anyone and maybe younger generation wants an easy money too so they grab this kind of risk.

[therwtonn]

The urge to participate in risky activities is an intrinsic part of moving into adulthood. Take gambling from them, and the same adolescents will start doing drugs, alcohol, engage in random sex etc. Also, they are extremely sensitive in this age, so you can't fake it for them, you can't just feed them with "simulated gambling and other forms of gambling-like behaviors", like the article suggests, because that would be a pill they won't swallow. They need something real. They want to do something what adults really do, and not just average adults, but the most daring ones, from their point of view.

In short, eradicating a problem, gambling in this instance, you can cause more problems to emerge, which are more severe than the eradicated one. So, forbidding your child to gamble or to drink beer, think twice with what he/she can replace it.

In my opinion the main reason for this is online gambling because now there is no need to go to a physical casino and back to home late at night. Your elders will definitely ask you where are you coming from. On the other hand even a student can play online gambling from his bedroom and nobody will know about it. Online gambling provided them this facility and that’s why the number is increasing day by day.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

First of all, as @Patatas and @The Pharmacist have said, it is better not to say that you are writing for merit. Although I don’t think it is merit begging, the way you state it. Most of us want merit, even people who don’t wear paid signatures, because it is a recognition that their contribution to the forum is positive. So, keep contributing to the forum, never mention merit, and eventually you’ll get some.

As for the addiction of young people, it think nowadays mobile phones play a big role. You can bet 24/7 from you mobiles: sports, poker, roulette... Years ago, to become addicted to playing roulette you had to go to the casino where people would see you, so it wasn’t as easy to get addicted. Nowadays you only need you finger. And you even can ask for instant online loans when you are chasing to recover your losses, which makes things even worse.

“Young people” here means “young males” in 99% of the cases, as they have more testosterone, and tend to control their impulses worse than older people.

[Betwrong]

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Excessive effort to make money. If you run out of money, gambling addicts won't stop. He would instead look for ways to earn more money, even in an excessive way. The most extreme way to try is to borrow money from loan sharks or steal.

We are talking about adolescents here,  young people between ages 10 and 19. In most cases people from this age group are living with their parents and they don't need to earn money for buying food, paying bills etc. They just want to become like adults as soon as possible, and that's why they engage in activities like drinking alcohol, taking drugs, gambling etc. That's what "cool adults" do from their point of view.

The urge to participate in risky activities is an intrinsic part of moving into adulthood. Take gambling from them, and the same adolescents will start doing drugs, alcohol, engage in random sex etc. Also, they are extremely sensitive in this age, so you can't fake it for them, you can't just feed them with "simulated gambling and other forms of gambling-like behaviors", like the article suggests, because that would be a pill they won't swallow. They need something real. They want to do something what adults really do, and not just average adults, but the most daring ones, from their point of view.

In short, eradicating a problem, gambling in this instance, you can cause more problems to emerge, which are more severe than the eradicated one. So, forbidding your child to gamble or to drink beer, think twice with what he/she can replace it.

In my opinion the main reason for this is online gambling because now there is no need to go to a physical casino and back to home late at night. Your elders will definitely ask you where are you coming from. On the other hand even a student can play online gambling from his bedroom and nobody will know about it. Online gambling provided them this facility and that’s why the number is increasing day by day.

If they weren't into gambling they would ... Please read my post, which you have quoted. It's not a matter of whining about increasing number of young gamblers. This is a serious and complicated problem which we are trying to solve here.

[Fuhre]

No one can be blamed in today's gambling progress, it is true that gambling addiction is very much experienced by young people now they play as they please without thinking of anything beyond that, the environment greatly influences people's thinking, gambling will be very good if they use it with well and if not it will have a negative impact on a child's life easily, depending on how they work.

[Barcode_]

I have the feeling that  this is becoming more of a trend now with more young people and more time on their hands, they can easily be turned into such societal orders, taking up gambling.

It is because the younger generations nowadays are much more internet savvy as compared to the older generations, and they are also much more willing to learn about new technologies, since there are so many online casinos that are allowing the gamblers to wager with crypto-currencies, some of the younger generations might start to play on the site when they saw online casinos appearing in google search, they might get themselves seriously addicted to gambling without any self control as it just requires an internet connection for them to start gambling.

[emberbekas]

After recent changes to the merit system, I am trying to do something useful and contribute to the forum. And this is what I collect, hopefully it will change my merit.

This is an article about that, a gambling disorder in most young people
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841330/
As stated in the article, experts and analysts know the causes and issues that lead to gambling addiction, they have clearly spoken about the dangers, consequences, and effects of gambling on the nerves and health of a person then there is a series of methods to stop that. But we are still here very clearly, the number is still increasing significantly every year, it has no signs of diminishing, even rising dizziness.

And the problem here is I want to ask why that happens? All the information is complete but people still can not solve the gambling addiction problem, the analysis is useless or our greed still dominates all.

Please let me know your opinion on this issue and if you have enough power, what would you do to solve this

Basically humans want to get everything easily and with little effort. That is why, even though gambling has given a bad example to its fans, gambling has never lost its interest. Greed and laziness are still dominant.

[andreijoaquin]

After recent changes to the merit system, I am trying to do something useful and contribute to the forum. And this is what I collect, hopefully it will change my merit.

This is an article about that, a gambling disorder in most young people
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841330/
As stated in the article, experts and analysts know the causes and issues that lead to gambling addiction, they have clearly spoken about the dangers, consequences, and effects of gambling on the nerves and health of a person then there is a series of methods to stop that. But we are still here very clearly, the number is still increasing significantly every year, it has no signs of diminishing, even rising dizziness.

And the problem here is I want to ask why that happens? All the information is complete but people still can not solve the gambling addiction problem, the analysis is useless or our greed still dominates all.

Please let me know your opinion on this issue and if you have enough power, what would you do to solve this

I agree many young people are now into gambling addiction, they started betting on a well known game until apparently grows into a more complex way of gamble. In fact even here in cryptos I see a lot of students who plays online casino, though some of them confess this has help them to earn additional income to support their finances but some even go on a wrong way that instead of studying  they used their spare time to gamble. I guess this is where the future leads our society.

[bitzizzix]

The majority of internet technology knowledge is controlled by young people because the power of their thinking is still good and easy to understand, and most of those who play gambling are young people who are easily hypnotized because they don't think about important things and they just think about what pleasure more that they can enjoy besides playing games, what else can produce like online gambling or whatever they will be interested in and try to win it.
Technological development greatly influences the generation of young people, but everything depends on them and the good or bad they feel themselves.

[Jateng]

After recent changes to the merit system, I am trying to do something useful and contribute to the forum. And this is what I collect, hopefully it will change my merit.

This is an article about that, a gambling disorder in most young people
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5841330/
As stated in the article, experts and analysts know the causes and issues that lead to gambling addiction, they have clearly spoken about the dangers, consequences, and effects of gambling on the nerves and health of a person then there is a series of methods to stop that. But we are still here very clearly, the number is still increasing significantly every year, it has no signs of diminishing, even rising dizziness.

And the problem here is I want to ask why that happens? All the information is complete but people still can not solve the gambling addiction problem, the analysis is useless or our greed still dominates all.

Please let me know your opinion on this issue and if you have enough power, what would you do to solve this

Young generations are exposed early to internet especially to online games or online casinos. At their young age,they become addicted to it and it also lead to distraction to them so they cannot focus in their studies. Unlike 90's kids, there are no online games yet. They used to play their toys, dolls, meet other kids like their neighborhood and bond with them.

[Betwrong]

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Young generations are exposed early to internet especially to online games or online casinos. At their young age,they become addicted to it and it also lead to distraction to them so they cannot focus in their studies. Unlike 90's kids, there are no online games yet. They used to play their toys, dolls, meet other kids like their neighborhood and bond with them.

This almost made me laugh. Only it's not funny that adolescents of the 90's were not even close to what you've described. Ever heard of drug and alcohol use? What about ultraviolent youth gangs spawned in the cities of Europe and America during the 90's? What about very young people engaging in mindless sex in order to show to their peers that they are "old and brave enough"? No, they weren't playing dolls and toys, and what would be worse for them, online gambling or the above mentioned activities is a big question.

[chainedblocks]

The urge to participate in risky activities is an intrinsic part of moving into adulthood. Take gambling from them, and the same adolescents will start doing drugs, alcohol, engage in random sex etc. Also, they are extremely sensitive in this age, so you can't fake it for them, you can't just feed them with "simulated gambling and other forms of gambling-like behaviors", like the article suggests, because that would be a pill they won't swallow. They need something real. They want to do something what adults really do, and not just average adults, but the most daring ones, from their point of view.

In short, eradicating a problem, gambling in this instance, you can cause more problems to emerge, which are more severe than the eradicated one. So, forbidding your child to gamble or to drink beer, think twice with what he/she can replace it.

Excessive effort to make money. If you run out of money, gambling addicts won't stop. He would instead look for ways to earn more money, even in an excessive way. The most extreme way to try is to borrow money from loan sharks or steal.

The consequences of gambling in young people are that they become patients of depression, hypertension, loneliness etc. in young age. it is because they spend most of their time in online gambling. They want to make extra money for their enjoyment and that is the bad thing because when they have no money they can do illegal activities for getting some money.