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Today October 29 is celebrated in our country National Day without games of chance, a day that seeks to provide prevention of pathological gambling and sensitize society on the use, abuse and dependence of it.
With this reason, the City of Murcia, through the Department of Youth and Development Cooperation, collaborates with the New Hope Association, a non-profit organization dedicated since 2005 to the prevention and rehabilitation of people diagnosed with pathological or pathological disorder. Game of Bets (DSM 5) and other concomitant addictions.
In this way, it has been distributed information and resolved doubts about prevention to Murcia on the Ludopatía in the municipal stand located in the Plaza de Santo Domingo and in which Councilwoman Rebeca Perez has been present.
Betting Disorder in adolescents is in full swing, due to the number of games rooms, easy accessibility and availability to bet, so "direct information to minors becomes the best tool to avoid new cases of pathological gambling among our young people, "stressed the councilor.
According to data from the Directorate General of Public Health and Addictions of the Ministry of Health, 8% of Murcia's youth between 14 and 17 years old have claimed to play with money on the Internet, while about 20% of these young people confess to having played with money out of the Internet, where lotteries and pools, bingos, casinos, betting houses and slot machines would be included.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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