Bad betting companies are targeting the most vulnerable, with the help of some politicians, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.
Predatory online gambling companies are targeting Brazil’s largely low-income and indebted population, many of whom see online casinos as a way of solving their financial problems.
Addiction to digital betting has been responsible for the breakdown of families and even deaths among workers burdened with crippling debts, according to the Ministry of Health. In another sign of the growing crisis, Brazil’s public health system is seeing its psychiatric care services overwhelmed by people addicted to gambling.
Forty-six per cent of Brazilians who bet on gambling platforms…