In fairness to the argument, we have decided to compare land-based casinos to online gambling. Today, an estimated 20 million Americans are, to some extent, addicted to gambling so much that it interferes with their daily lives and social responsibilities.
Data isn’t too readily available but based on research by John W. Welte called “Gambling and Problem Gambling in the United States: Changes Between 1999 and 2013,” the numbers of problem gamblers in the United States have remained the same in the survey period.
That is less than ideal because it doesn’t really touch on today’s numbers in full. However, it shows that there was no immediate sharp increase in gambling addictions a decade after the first online casinos were introduced to the United States.
Data isn’t too readily available but based on research by John W. Welte called “Gambling and Problem Gambling in the United States: Changes Between 1999 and 2013,” the numbers of problem gamblers in the United States have remained the same in the survey period.
That is less than ideal because it doesn’t really touch on today’s numbers in full. However, it shows that there was no immediate sharp increase in gambling addictions a decade after the first online casinos were introduced to the United States.
