Online Gambling and Addiction

12 April 2002

A new report attempts to shed light on the relationship between Internet gambling and the rate of addicted players.

The Wager, a leading weekly research report that gathers information on gambling addition studies conducted worldwide, reports this week on two studies conducted to determine whether players who gamble via the Internet are more susceptible to becoming addicted gamblers than those who don't.

The publication, which is published by the Harvard Medical School's Division on Addictions, showed that among the pathological gamblers questioned for the study, more than 60 percent of them, used the Internet.

The studies aren't perfect scientific findings though, and The Wager explains why. To read the findings of the study, and The Wager's explanation of them, click here.