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The results released from a study on online casino gambling that was conducted by the Harvard Medical School were really quite surprising to a whole lot of people on both sides of the internet gambling debate. The US currently bans offshore online casinos based on the notion of protecting US gamblers – the new Harvard study may just have some politicians who were on the fence about the issue thinking a bit more about the merits of legalized gambling in the US market. The Harvard study was specifically performed to analyze gambling addiction rates and assess whether internet gambling has caused an increase in gambling addition.


The naysayers who vehemently oppose the online casinos based on the assumption that gamblers are more likely to become addicted to internet gambling may just have to watch their arguments. The Harvard study found that the vase majority of online casino gamblers are actually very responsible in their gambling habits – perhaps even better than the land gambling industry. Internet gamblers are pretty solid in their ability to self-monitor their expenditures and ensure that they are only gambling moderately.


This is not to say that there are not problem gamblers arising out of the online casinos – because there are. But the Harvard study indicated that as many of 95 percent of the internet gamblers had consistent and moderate gambling habits. This means that opponents to internet gambling on the grounds of problem gambling addiction have to rethink some of their arguments because of these surprising findings. The Harvard Study concluded that problem gambling levels have not actually increased as a result of an increase in online gambling.