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Public Health Model a Possibility

Underage gambling is a real problem around the world and unfortunately, no matter how much the online casino gambling industry tries to float around the subject the issue cropped up in the past decade with the advent of the internet gambling industry. Underage gamblers now only need a computer and a credit card at their fingertips and even the most stringent controls at the online casinos cannot keep out all of the children and youth. Now, this is not to say that land gambling does not play a role, because that is an issue as well, but in the eyes of the world the increases in underage and problem gambling lies squarely on the shoulders of the internet casinos – fair or not that is the nature of the beast.

The UK Gambling Commission has recently adopted the underage gambling issue as the Commission’s new cause and is looking for ways to lessen and eliminate underage gambling. Tighter controls at the online casinos will actually only have a minor impact on the increasing number of underage gamblers. The Commission’s main other choice in this situation is a public health model of education and support for the public. The online casinos cannot remain solely to blame for the current global and UK situation where youth have access to land and internet gambling. The crisis situation extends to the parents of these underage gamblers as well.

The public health model would have the Commission fund a national campaign that has three tiers to reduce risk of underage land and online casino gambling. The three areas include preventative steps to keep children from accessing the sites, education for parents and youth about gambling, and harm reduction efforts to neutralize exposure to internet gambling and prevent gambling behaviors from becoming abusive behaviors.