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April 24, 2009 - Harvard Reports Online Gamblers Are More Disciplined

Following a research done by Dr. Howard Shaffer, the director of the Harvard Medical School’s Addictions Department, it has been reported that there has been a significant drop in the proportion of problem gamblers among the population since the 1970s.

The research by Dr. Shaffer was done simultaneously with Bwin, an Austrian-based online gambling company. The results of this research disclose that there has not been a great increase in problem gambling despite the fact that the amount of general gambling has increased in the United States since the 1970s

They also concluded that most online gamblers are presently gambling in a much more disciplined and moderate manner compared to the manner in which they were gambling in the 1970s with the proportion of problem gamblers having actually dropped among the population from 0.7 percent of the population in the 1970s to 0.6 percent of the population today.

Dr Shaffer stated that they were very surprised to learn that an extensive majority, in fact an overwhelming majority of online gamblers gamble in a very sensible and controlled way.

This report will undoubtedly be a help for pro-gambling US lawmakers in their endeavor to overturn the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act which bans Internet gambling by making it an offence to transfer funds from a financial institution to Internet gambling sites.

Dr Shaffer feels that education and public awareness programs would have a far better effect in keeping gamblers safe from problem gambling than preventing them from gambling online.

 

 

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