Oxford report places spotlight on gambling’s ‘poor social outcomes’

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The research’s headline findings suggest that ‘the top 1% of gamblers surveyed spent 58% of their income gambling’, whilst ‘high levels of gambling are associated with a 37% increase in mortality’.

The research was led by Oxford’s Dr Naomi Muggleton, who was granted access to ‘anonymous data’ provided by a UK retail bank, aggregated for up to 6.5 million individuals over a period of up to seven years.

On societal consequences, Oxford’s report identified that high-to-medium levels of gambling carried negative outcomes on individuals such as financial risks, crime, unemployment and social isolation.

Oxford report places spotlight on gambling’s 'poor social outcomes'

Undertaking its review of the 2005 Gambling Act, the government has been presented with a further report underlining the potential financial consequences and societal risks of problem gambling and addiction on the UK public. The report, undertaken by the University of Oxford’s Department of...

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Old news.
We always knew that 1-2% of humans are gambling addicts.
However, the way the world is moving, a small minority of fuck ups, in any industry, group, business, etc will end up ruining life for the rest of us with all sorts of protective bullshit designed to help the degens, who nature just wants to rid from the gene pool the old fashioned way.