How Covid caused a gambling pandemic

Saamir Ansari
3 min readApr 20, 2021

Gambling addiction rises sharply during lockdown but can it be controlled?

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Though gambling may have existed for many hundreds of years addictive and problematic gambling has only grown exponentially in the past 20 years resulting in addiction becoming commonplace. Worse still those who are afflicted by such an addiction rarely seek help.

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