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A UK article published last week is once again harping on the controversial claim that problem gambling and problem gambling debt is growing in the country. There have been mixed reports about this claim for well over a year now (all of the clamor started when the UK’s more liberal online casino gambling legislation came into effect). The Daily Mail published the article last week and the tone was decidedly against internet gambling – this is par normal for a Daily Mail piece. The article surmises that problem gamblers in the UK have racked up an astonishing GBP 5 million in debt – these numbers are up from just ten years ago.

That magic figure was estimated based on the government’s estimation that roughly 284,000 UK land and online casino gamblers are potentially problem gamblers. Couple that number with the GBP 17,500 average debt per problem gambler (estimated by the esteemed Gamecare watchdog group) and that totals just under GBP 5 billion.

All of these concerns though sit on a backdrop of denial by the UK government. The Culture Department’s main counterargument to these claims is to insist that more liberal legislation at the online casinos has not caused an increase in problem gambling levels. The CD contends that problem gambling levels are actually still at their 1999 levels – an assertion that just doesn’t sit right with the watchdog groups that are fielding more calls for help and recording more debt than in previous years. The article calls for more assistance for problem gamblers and additional support measures in place to put a halt to the increasing high debt problem gamblers are facing.