TK |
3 October 2017
Prague, Oct 2 (CTK) – The number of Czechs addicted to gambling machines, online gambling and betting has been rising, reaching up to 120,000 in 2016 when people lost a total of 39.3 billion crowns in gambling, according to a report released by the National Centre for Drugs and Addictions Monitoring.
A total of 500,000 people may have had gambling-related problems. A gambler’s average debt reached 1.2 million crowns, a double of the average debt in 2015, the annual report says.
Some gamblers owe as much as tens of millions of crowns, it says.
In 2014, the number of problem gamblers was 440,000, including 100,000 addicts.
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