The Gambling Atlas Germany 2023 has been published, revealing a more in-depth examine all factors surrounding the subject of playing in Germany.
The ebook turned into produced via way of means of specialists from the Insitute for Interdisciplinary Addiction and Drug Research (ISD Hamburg) and the Gambling Research Unit on the University of Bremen, with the German Central Office for Addiction Issues (DHS) appearing as a Co-Editor.
Federal Government Commissioner for Addiction and Drug Issues, Burkhard Blienert, said: “With the Gambling Atlas 2023, that is now available, all of the principal statistics and information approximately playing are bundled. This offers us an awesome foundation for the dialogue approximately the proper manner to cope with playing and its consequences.
“We desperately want it! It is widely known that playing gives entice with brief and now and again excessive–cash winnings. But infrequently all of us is aware of how excessive the threat of dependancy absolutely is – from the first actual game – now no longer even in politics.”
Some of the important thing information from the Gambling Atlas 2023 include: 30% of the populace in Germany collaborating in playing as of 2021, 2.3% of the populace having a playing disorder, 4 out of 10 individuals in slot machines having a playing disorder, and call for from on line gamblers for outpatient assist offerings growing sharply during the last 5 years.
Christian Schütze, from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Addiction and Drug Research Hamburg, added: “The Gambling Atlas 2023 closes a gap. It takes a joint examine the special however interwoven regions of playing supply, law, call for, dependancy and prevention.
“This is executed in a factual, overview-like and vibrant way with many illustrations. In this manner, it gives decision-makers and all fascinated events clean get right of entry to to the critical information on this debatable coverage area.”
In comparable news, withinside the UK, Safer Gambling Week 2023 has been released this week, organised in element via way of means of the Betting & Gaming Council, BACTA and the Bingo Association.