Almost 4.000 personas This year they started a substanceless addiction treatment in Spain. Of these, 80% started gambling and betting addiction; and 10% due to video game addiction.
He 21.5% of students between 14 and 18 years old have played with money online and/or in person in the last 12 months (compared to 20.1% in 2021). Those who have played with money virtually (23.5%) would have a game more problematic than those who do it with physical money (20.5%). In adulthood, more than half have played with money (58.1%).
“These types of addictions exist, and that is why this issue has been incorporated into the information system and our concerns,” he declares. Joan Villalbí, Delegate of the National Plan on Drugs of the Ministry of Health, after making the latest report public. This is a descriptive study on behavioral addictions and other addictive disorders that have been carried out based on the specific responses incorporated into the latest editions of the EDADES and ESTUDES surveys.
When the game is played in person, the vast majority occurs in lotteries (40.6%), betting room, bingos or casinos. Regarding gambling with money online, in the first place are the video gamewhere more than half of young people admit to having played money (51.5%), followed by sports betting (35.2%) and “Cryptocurrencies or trading”.
In the men is observed a higher prevalence of gambling with money online, especially among the youngest. In person, the percentages between both sexes are more similar, although it is also higher in men.