Best solution to handle gambling addiction, in a country.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Considering the gambling addiction ratio in a country is increasing rapidly, what are the best possible solutions the citizens or government of that nation can implement to deal with the problem. Before you jump right into suggesting, the government should ban/tag gambling related activities as illegal in the country, you should understand that running away from a problem don't actually solve that problem. Beside proposing a ban on gambling only encourages the citizens of that nation to gamble illegally.

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[mindrust]

Banning gambling is not going to solve the problem indeed. People just go to the other countries and play there and when they do that the government is going to lose lots of tax income too.

I believe it is all about educating people. It people can grow a well established consciousness over the years since the day they were born, it is easy to deal with any kind of addiction.

Addicts usually have one thing in common, they have no idea what they are doing. It is like there is a barrier between their eyes and brains which causes a malfunction. That's my observation anyway.

[Lafu]

That's right, but gambling will probably never be banned in countries because they also benefit with taxes and royalties.
In addition to all the gambling addiction that exists in this business, there are plenty of facilities to treat them if anyone is really stuck in the gambling addiction.
Most everything is controlled by the business industry.

[omonuyak]

I don't think my country can ban gambling as one of the sports betting company's owner is a member of legislation. Some of the people making laws also have gambling websites and businesses. In a way, I don't see anything wrong with gambling or betting as many people especially the owner treat it as business and before you became addicted to it you must have taken it too far.

[goinmerry]

Gamblers itself are the problem.

No matter how serious the government to stop all gambling activities to save people from being an unresponsible, shit, addicted gambler in the future, we have a human nature that we will do anything just to make us a fun or finds an easy way to make a big money.

In case of a total gambling ban, only the regulated gambling companies will be closed including online bettings. However, there are other gambling types that are not regulated and that will still continue.

There are gambling rehabilitation centers on some of the country that is putting so much effort to save an addicted gambler. But for a start, family and friends of those gambling addict must start the first move to help their loved ones survived the worst effect of doing gambling.

[rosezionjohn]

This is more of a personal problem. Aside from regulating the gambling industry, I don't know if there's anything else they can do to prevent the addiction. Maybe requiring casinos to impose limitations on how much a gambler can bet?

[dothebeats]

I don't think a country can introduce a one size fits all solution to the problem of gambling addiction. Each gambler has their own habit of playing thus rendering some of the steps not applicable to some people who have different approach in gambling. The government can ban gambling any way they like, but if the problem goes deeper than the roots of the addict is, then I don't think there's really a way to control it in a large sample in a single country. Best thing to do is to just put rehabilitation centers and treat gambling addiction as somewhat identical to mental health problems and help the gambler go from there, but that's just my opinion.

[Lafu]

Any country that prohibits gambling would cut its own meat.
And everywhere you look at it says "gambling can be addictive, play at your own risk"!

[rdluffy]

I don't think there's a formula to handle this, because a person who are addicted to gambling is the same as a person who are addicted to alcohol or smoking, and governments and families are trying to deal with this for a long time
Some people are more easy to become addict, and the only thing that comes in my head in psychological treatment
No advertising of governments, or prohibition

[tippytoes]

This is more of a personal problem. Aside from regulating the gambling industry, I don't know if there's anything else they can do to prevent the addiction. Maybe requiring casinos to impose limitations on how much a gambler can bet?

Maybe that's one solution but I doubt casinos will limit how much you will spend on them. I have never heard a casino limiting a certain gambler as they want to spend you more on them. But if in case in the future, they decided to help an addicted gambler, what they can do is give certain limits to them and be firm with that decision. And all the surrounding casinos should do the same. Because if not, the gambler will just hop on in each and every casino he can play with.

[STT]

Gambling is a natural activity, what leads to a problem is the over commitment of money that is not spare or able to be lost without a problem.    The correct education is in money management, many are so bad with money they only manage via their wife paying all their bills.   If they have no wife to force proper use of wages they suffer the poor use of money on drinking and many wasteful forms of spending.  
   Children can be educated on correct household economics in school and this will in turn solve many problems in a country from poor use of capital.

[playboy654]

Increasing the tax rates for the rewards we are making from gambling can make the people to stay away from it at some extent because most of the gamblers are doing to for money so when they need to give half the rewards to the government in the form of tax if there is a win but when we lose its completely on our head.

[Oilacris]

Considering the gambling addiction ratio in a country is increasing rapidly, what are the best possible solutions the citizens or government of that nation can implement to deal with the problem. Before you jump right into suggesting, the government should ban/tag gambling related activities as illegal in the country, you should understand that running away from a problem don't actually solve that problem. Beside proposing a ban on gambling only encourages the citizens of that nation to gamble illegally.

Theres no other way rather than banning and I do agree that this would lead somehow to illegal gambling but at least it wont really rampant just like before when it isn't still banned.

So banning would be the nearest thing to be done if a country would like to protect its citizen on possible gambling addiction.

[serjent05]

Increasing the tax rates for the rewards we are making from gambling can make the people to stay away from it at some extent because most of the gamblers are doing to for money so when they need to give half the rewards to the government in the form of tax if there is a win but when we lose its completely on our head.

I think this will have no effect.  People will still play in gambling casinos.  Remember it is an easy money if they win, so they won't mind paying high taxes for it.  I believe it is best for the government to tightly monitor the gambling activity in their country.  The government must implement a daily allowable amount of money to gamble in a casino, and punish both the operator and the player if they don't follow this rule.  The allowable amount to gamble is dependent on the certain percentage of monthly earning of the player.  This way, they will at least limit a players overspending in gambling activities.

[jhonjhon]

Banning gambling is impossible in our country because most of the shareholders or even owners of the casinos are from the government, so that is why no one has ever suggested the ban because they know it’ll just a waste of time. Also, casino cannot be blame for addiction because it is originated from the gambler, they can claim they opened just for entertainment but never forced someone to be addicted, so basically so long as casinos follow the law and don’t do anything against it then the government can ban it.

[Rufsilf]

For me the best solution is don’t gamble at all fo you not to be addicted, gambling is a very dangerous game to play most especially if you don’t have self control because you’ll surely end up in addiction so if you know you can’t control yourself then don’t enter into gambling. Also, proper education of pros and cons can also be good but gamblers are humans they can still be addicted if they don’t control themselves. For me banning can be the best solution because gamblers will always find a way to gamble no matter what.

[TimeTeller]

Banning gambling is impossible in our country because most of the shareholders or even owners of the casinos are from the government, so that is why no one has ever suggested the ban because they know it’ll just a waste of time. Also, casino cannot be blame for addiction because it is originated from the gambler, they can claim they opened just for entertainment but never forced someone to be addicted, so basically so long as casinos follow the law and don’t do anything against it then the government can ban it.

Gambling has been in existence in various forms ever since humanity is born on this Earth.
So banning will not do any good for this aspect of life of humankind.
Regulation might help but addiction to gambling is a personal choice and that individual can change his path by his own will, with the help of people surrounding him that truly care for his well-being.

[Oceat]

I believe the best solution for gambling addiction is self-awareness and educating the young ones about the cause and effect of playing gambling. It should all starts in ourselves that we should discipline ourselves first before preaching others, especially to the young ones. Gambling is already in there before those children were born, parents and teachers should teach those children of how gambling or any kind of addiction is dangerous to them.

[FlightyPouch]

For me, I would not stop gambling since you will not be able to stop people from gambling, that is the nature of human. We will be ending up addicted in one thing at some point and it is ourselves that is responsible for that and not the government. Higher taxes, that is the solution of most of the countries to prevent gamblers from gambling, but still, they keep in gambling. I think the only body responsible for the gamblers here is the casinos and not the government since they can't stop people from going in and out of casinos.

[Lafu]

Also dont forget if they ban gambling on the countrys they all will gambling on the internet if they dont doing this already .
The industrie is to big for that and they will find always a way to get at some peoples everywhere around the world !