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The Oregon Department of Human Services has announced the specifics on the state’s online casino gambling addictions in young gamblers. And while the statistics for real-money online gambling are quite positive, the state officials are concerned with statistics on free internet gambling. Online Casino gambling in the United States is largely banned because of the UIGEA, which means that underage and youth gamblers are mostly unable to even access the internet casinos, let alone gamble. But the free gambling figures are alarming because they indicate that youth gamblers are developing gambling as a pastime – they have casinos essentially in the bedrooms observe some officials.

As for the specific figures, real money gambling at the online casinos comes in at just one percent of the Oregon teens participating in the pastime. This figure is quite impressive and an indication that the state has at least one area under control. The perceived problems with free online gambling though poses problems that are more difficult to address since teenage gamblers are not breaking the law and neither are the free gambling sites. At this point, as many as 94,659 teenagers from age 12-17 are gambling at free online casino gambling sites. That is a huge 30 percent of Oregon teens – a figure that has the Head of Problem Gambling Services at the DHS concerned about the long-term effect on youth gamblers.

The free online casino gambling figures will only continue to rise as the pastime grows in popularity and is spread through word-of-mouth. To that end, prevention specialists note that they will not attempt to stop internet based gambling, but rather to educate the youth through school curriculum, pamphlets, and others measures in development throughout the summer months.