Articles about Gambling
Gambling Addictions Risks In Teens
National Problem Gambling Awareness Week provides a great platform to discuss the teen gambling. It is really persistent and threatening behavior as realized by many of us.
It is even equaled dangerous as addiction to drug or alcohol. There is not much awareness about teen gambling and not much attention has been paid to it by society yet. This program can help parents by educating them about the signs and risks involved in it.
Teen are more prone to these because of many reasons. First is their development level, they are not foreseeing and just take risk more often. They have no understanding about the consequences of their steps. They have weak control on themselves and have insufficient judgement. Since they are technologically expert and the publicity of online gambling made it easy to access. They just need to have credit cards and bypass the age verification processes.
Teens are curious to new things and this behaviour can make them attracted towards gambling and they can easily get addicted to it. It has been observed that the rate of gambling addictions is higher in teens as compared to adults. National Problem gambling Awareness Week’s factsheet shows that 4-8% of teens meet the criteria of gambling problem and 10-15% are at risk of gambling addiction and this risk increases the risk of child violence and suicide rate probability.
Following are the symptoms that indicate towards the gambling addiction:
• Long Absents from School
• Lowering Class Grades
• Alcohol and drug use suspicion
• Have large amount of money all of a sudden
• Using Gambling related words
• Showing off about expensive clothes and other purchases
• Stay on computer for long and keep the sites secret
• Trying to tell personal stuff
• Stealing in school, lying
• Lacking sleep
• Too much show off about winning
• Less interested in family and other activities
If the child has the gambling problem then losing money is not the only risk involved. They can also develop a behaviour addiction which is hard to overcome. It can ultimately lead to family, social and sometimes legal problems. They never ask for help and that make the problem worse. They can even suicide in such cases.
Parents should be careful about gambling addiction. In case of suspicion call 1-800-522-4700. This helpline number is get u in touch with resources that helps you to deal with child gambling problem.
The parents and the educators need to pay attention to gambling problems. They need to be alert and help teens to deal with online gambling problems. Parents need to have enough awareness to stop the teen gambling addiction. They need to be alert and keep an eye on the teens to notice the behavioral changes to identify the problem before it becomes a serious issue.