– It is, above all, very fun to gambling via the chair ends up on the agenda, in the same way as alcohol and drugs, and other public health problems do. I think that it puts the subject in science and provides new and better opportunities to do research on it, ” says Håkansson to Echo.
An increase in the availability of games on the web is one of the risk factors for the approximately 130 000 people who suffer from an unhealthy gambling addiction. Approximately 30 000 has an addiction to gambling as a risk to play more than what they can afford.
Håkansson want to do research on what components which increase the dependence and also look at the players ‘ individual circumstances.
the Swedish game fund service together with the Lund university.
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