LUDOPATHY

LUDOPATHY

Made by Paula Fernández, Natalia Buitrago, Naiara García and Aroa Villasevil from 2ºA.

INDEX

Causes of ludopathy.

01

Consequences of ludopathy.

02

Awareness campaign on ludopathy.

03

Real statistics in Spain.

04

05

Personal reflection on ludopathy.

06

Where to search for help.

01. CAUSES OF LUDOPATHY

-Familiar history. People that are raised in an eviroment with people with problems with the game. -Problems to fase stressful situations. They feel victorious in game nd betting but they feel insecure in other fields of their life. -Problems with administrating money. They tend to be people that waste their economic resources easily, many gambling have some debts. -Tendency towars depression and anxiety. -Difficulty in social interacting. It occurs in cases where they use the game to take refuge from the loneliness. However, there are cases in which they gamble because the feel the need to be part of a group. -Living in an environment where betting is easy to practise. For instance, people residing in a city with many casinos are prone to get into ludopathy.

02. CONSEQUENCES OF LUDOPATHY

Whether you click on the indicated icon, you will access to an official document with further information on the consequences of ludopathy.

Addicted to gambling tend to give up on their social, laboral and familiar relationships. Within these consequences, it has been shown that they have serious concentration problems, and to this is added that they tend to suffer from insomnia. This is because casinos and betting places often have night schedules, so instead of resting they spend their sleeping hours in these places. Many addicted people end up being broke because they do not know how to manage their money. And, with the unpaid debts they may have, they can end up in trouble with the law, even going to jail. In conclusion, we can subdivide the most impotant consequences of ludopathy into personal, familiar, labour or academic, social, economic and judicial consequences.

03. REAL STATISTICS IN SPAIN OF LUDOPATHY

In Spain, polls made by the Spanish State have revealed that around a 1, 7% of the national population between 15 and 64 years admit that they possibly have ludopathy or problems on gambling in 2022. This addiction is becoming commoner and commoner between teenagers from 15 years onwards. However, teenagers prefer sports betting while adults prefer to play bingo or slot machines. Furthermore, this percentage is higher in men than in women. Within this 1, 7%, the 1, 3% corresponds to people thinking they have problems on gambling while the remainder 0, 4% belongs to people believing they are compulsive gamblers. Nevertheless, the percentage of people with ludopathy or serious problems with gambling has decreased in relation to the ones belonging to the past four years: in 2020 the 2, 2% and in 2018 the 2, 6% of the total number of inhabitants aged between 15 and 64 in Spain. Additionally, other studies made by IPOLGOB of the UC3M show that Spain is the second country in Europe with the lowest rate on ludopathy, ahead of countries like Sweden, Germany, France and England. Moreover, this report shows that around a 80% of the total adult population being between 18 and 75 in Spain have taken part on gambling games. This percentage of people corresponds to 28 million of inhabitants.

By clicking here you can access to the official information from the Spanish State.

In this slide and in the following one you are going to find some interesting tables from the previous source of information about ludopathy in Spain.

04. AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ON LUDOPATHY

In this slide, you can see the three basic elements of our awareness campaign in order to concern people and specially teenagers about this pathology: a poster, a post for a social media network and a video advertisement, respectively.

Post

Poster

Video

05. PERSONAL REFECTION ON LUDOPATHY

From our point of view, ludopathy is a huge and vital to solve problem among teenagers and youth. Furthermore, we believe that there is only a way to solve this issue: the State has to invest more money in helping the compulsive gambler to get out of ludopathy. We think that the compulsive gambler has to receive the best mental health attention as well as familiar support in order not to cause bigger problems like suicide. Moreover, in our opinion it is key not to let teenagers to get into it, so to do such we think that they have to be taught about its seriousness as well as about the risks they must take into account when playing games. Their parents also have to control the games that their children are used to play because this issue happens also in online games. Additionally, this issue affects to the economy of the addicted person and his or her family which we believe that is also a vital consequence to consider in order to persuade youth not to get into it.

06. WHERE TO SEARCH FOR HELP

There has been abled a new phone number by the Spanish State in order to help compulsive gamblers to get out of this huge addiction which is affecting to many teenagers and adult people. This free-phone number is: 900 53 30 25. This phone number is provided by eight different digital operators which compose the 80% of the total number of them. You can check it yourself by clicking on the following icon with the shape of a phone:

We hope that with our slideshow you have learned the most important stuff of ludopathy.