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Essay on The Effects Of Gambling On The Mind
Gambling is an addiction and is as devastating to the mind as taking a drug, because it involves money, compulsive gamblers are depressed and use gambling to ease their fears and end up losing money they desperately need. This can be equated to the highs of manic depression when people go out on spending sprees and are on an unnatural high. Gamblers too spend money the same way. It is recognized that some people do become addicted to gambling, often with serious consequences for themselves and their families. However, the problem is often attributed to irresponsible behavior by weak individuals and the social costs are trivialized. Gambling is not, as its supporters would have it, a virtuous activity that generates benefits for everyone. On the contrary, the benefits are largely an illusion; the costs are real and are damaging to the economy and society, in both the short and long terms. This is especially true of the more recent and most lucrative forms of gambling, namely the VLTs and the blue-collar casinos.
One can reject the rationale used to justify the expansion of gambling, on the grounds it is spurious: the costs are either suppressed or discounted, the benefits grossly exaggerated. Goodman (1996), for example, argues that gambling is regressive in its impact (taking more from people at the bottom of the income distribution than those at the top), erodes local economies and "can be highly addictive." Similarly, a 1996 report by the National Council of Welfare (Gambling in Canada) alleges that "literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians are problem gamblers, and their addiction takes a terrible toll on themselves, their friends and families and society as a whole. Families break up, bills don't get paid, and people take time off work because of their obsession with gambling. At its worst, problem gambling degenerates into a world of criminal activities." (Henriksson, 1996)......................
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