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Expert: Bet on Rise in Gambling Addiction

UNITED KINGDOM – As reported by the Guardian Unlimited: "Changes later this year in gambling legislation - and the temptations of technology - could more than double the number of adult and adolescent Britons with gambling addiction, it was claimed.

"'We are just about to go through one of the biggest deregulation measures this country has ever seen,' Mark Griffiths, who heads a gaming research unit at Nottingham Trent University, told the British Association science festival in Exeter.

"…The new legislation would allow 'low stake, low jackpot' machines for children in sea side arcades and leisure centres. These were still addictive.

"He said he had called on Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, and warned her that machines with a £5 or £10 jackpot were just as addictive as events with a £1m jackpot.

"…New legislation and new technological temptations, he added, could increase these figures by two to fourfold…"

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