Doctors say
Doctors are calling for restrictions on sports betting advertisements, saying that they are setting up youth for the future of the problem gambling.
An editorial published in the Journal of Canadian Medical Association on Monday said that there are advertisements everywhere during advertising broadcast and online gambling graduation has made every smartphone a possible betting platform.
Editor Dr. Shannon Charlebois says that even though betting sites say they are only for people aged 19 and above, young ads are being influenced by advertising who are enjoying the game with betting.
She says that children and teenage brains are still developing and continuous contact for gambling messages normalize harmful behavior they can take to adulthood.
Charlebois says that a bill has been introduced in the Senate to regulate sports betting advertisements and if passed, will be a good start to address the problem.
She wants to see banned gambling advertisements during the games and is removed from social media platforms used by the youth.
Charlebois said in an interview, “How many of these advertisements can be placed within a sports broadcast or how long they can be, there is no limit on it.”
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Comments for betting sites often have their own sections during the game break in the game.
“It is very dangerous for children that it is normalizing a known harmful behavior during an impressive phase. And it is actually an appeal to the youth who are predetermined to enjoy geneically, biologically risking,” she said.
“I have seen people’s lives falling in all ages, from all areas of life, whether it is an accountant with an accountant behind it, or a child who is just looking to maximize his college fund, who had then lost all this within a few weeks,” Charlebois said, who is a family doctor.
A teenage addiction expert in Ottawa, Dr. Shaun Kelly, who co-edged the editorial with Charlebois, said that he mostly see the use of substances in his patients, but he has started screening for gambling behavior as he believes that it is an emerging issue.
He said that gambling addiction still takes a lot of stigma, so people try to hide it and can hesitate in search of treatment.
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Kelly said that the need for bookies to be legally adults is not always an effective.
“There are some age restrictions and identity verification efforts that go to these (betting sites), but the youth have long been buying alcohol, despite the age sanctions around it – and therefore where there is an inspired teenager, will find a way.”
Even if the advertisements are not targeting the youth, they still look at them and are impressed, Kelly said, who watches the game with her twins.
“These advertisements are not directed to nine -year -old children sitting with me, but they are picking up it.”
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