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Online Gambling in Malta

Organizations in Malta are now calling for gambling awareness advertisements in the media because to ease gambling addictions and counter-act the ease of online casino gambling. A recent study conducted by Agenzija Sedqua in Malta shows that there doesn’t seem to be a large online gambling problem among the young Maltese adults, and organizations like Sedqua want to ensure that this age group stays away from the online casinos.

The recent lifestyle study was a joint effort between Sedqua and the National Focal Point for drugs and Drug Addiction. Part of the aim of the study was to determine the extent of drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and other dependencies in the 18-24 age range. The results of the study were surprising, though more than half of the respondents admitted to engaging in some form of gambling (lottery, Keno, scratch cards, etc.) a mere 2 percent of the respondents use online casinos.

This organization is particularly concerned with the rise in online gambling in other countries, and the extreme negative effects online casinos addictions could have on Malta citizens. The operations director of Sedqua, Jean-Claude Cardona, explains the problems with online casinos. “Internet gambling is easily accessible and there are no physical deterrents that might put a person off gambling.” He continued, "All a person has to do is sit at his computer and access the site, putting him at a higher risk of becoming asocial." Cardona goes on to elaborate that in the future he predicts that online gambling and online casinos will become even more invasive, “experts predict that gambling will eventually be done through interaction with television.”

But thanks to Sedqua, Cardona says that the government has agreed to more regulations, particularly in regards to online casinos licensing. This is just one part of Sedqua’s mission to counter the negative effects that online gambling has in Malta. They also are pushing for more counseling, and more social workers available to citizens with gambling additions.