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Bad
Effects of Internet Gambling
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
July 25, 2006
General information about Internet gambling
Online gambling can be defined as the gambling on the
Internet with the help of computers. The popularity of
the gambling is increasing day by day. A lot of people
like to gamble on the Internet, because it is very
comfortable. A person does not need to go anywhere to
play gamble and it can be played in your home sitting on
the computer. Gambling on the Internet can be fun but it
should not be done in excess because it could have some
adverse affects on the mind and body. The gambling show
the ill effects only when the gambling is done in
excess. Internet gambling can become a habit, which is
called compulsive Internet gambling.
Compulsive Internet
gambling
Compulsive Internet gambling can be
defined as an inability to stop gambling on the Internet
despite the adverse consequences, which have occurred or
can occur. It is a very big problem in United States of
America. According to a study approximately 85% of the
American adults have gambled in some part of their
lives. A large number of compulsive gamblers loose most
of their salary in the gambling. Compulsive Internet
gambling also affects the family life of the gambler.
Divorce rates are also high in the couples in which one
or both the spouses are suffering from compulsive
gambling disorder.
Effects of Internet
gambling on mind
There are severe affects of the
Internet gambling
on some part of the mind. Many psychological disorders
such as anxiety and depression can occur because of the
Internet gambling especially at the time of losing. All
these adverse effects start coming as soon as the person
starts losing in the gambling. In some recent studies
it is seen that most of the gamblers show similar
responses to the prospects of winning and losing money,
while gambling, with the response to the drugs like
cocaine and morphine. The blood flow in the brain is
also altered the same way, as it is altered at the time
of infusion of the cocaine in the brain. It is at the
gambler’s peril, whether he wants to play gambling or
not, considering these bad effects of gambling.
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