Experts: Compulsive gambling could increase with online betting

[The Buzz]

Donald Weinbaum, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, estimated there are 350,000 problem gamblers in New Jersey. The start of Internet gambling in New Jersey on Nov. 26 has Weinbaum and other compulsive-gambling experts worried that figure could go higher, particularly among younger people.

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[TheWaiter]

It's a shame but unfortunately it's going to happen, there has been a large increase within the UK for women on account of online bingo sites pushing players onto harder forms of gambling. There needs to be a good support network for those who are addicted such as stopping smoking, it also needs to be responsibility of the provider to watch out for signs, but who will do this, I've yet to find an ethical games provider