gambling addiction

One often associates gambling with casinos, but the truth of the matter is that gambling includes not only casinos and card rooms but bingo games and lotteries as well. At least 85 per cent of Americans have gambled once in their lives, and nowadays, due to the introduction and increased popularity of online gambling sites, there has been a marked increase of at least 600 per cent in teenagers and college students who are into gambling. Gambling is also legal in 48 states. So there is little wonder that those who start out gambling as a form of diversion eventually become problem gamblers, and ultimately become pathological gamblers.