Month: July 2023

New data shows that roughly two-thirds of people with gambling damage had some kind of early exposure to gambling. This revolutionary study by YouGov for GambleAware found that those who were exposed to gambling at a young age (either via their own families or through exposure to advertising on television) were more likely to experience gambling-related damage as adults. Surprisingly, 64 percent of those who had suffered major injury admitted that they knew someone who gambled often before they became 18 years old. On the other hand, just 25 percent of non-gamblers reported having a comparable experience when they...