Public Health England, in a report released in September 2021, has quantified the costs of gambling to UK society.
Ten police departments in the UK are now routinely checking suspects for symptoms of gambling addiction, just as they do for drug and alcohol addiction, in an effort to better understand how the issue is contributing to crime. According to The Guardian, seven other units intend to adopt the practise this year.
Martin Armstrong of Statista notes that one of the many conseq...