A recent survey by Enjeu-Mineurs revealed that more than one in three young people aged 15 to 17 (34.8%) have played a gambling game at least once in the last twelve months, reports
The Parisian
Thursday.
While this share has remained relatively stable since 2014, this new study has highlighted an evolution of games towards an increase in risky practices.
In total, no less than 300,000 adolescents (12.1%) would have gambling behavior deemed risky or problematic, according to the criteria of the Canadian Index of Excessive Gambling (ICJE).
A figure which has also increased from 11 to 34% in eight years, if we only consider declared players.
A “liberalization of online games”
Thus, this rate of gambling practices considered to be at risk appears six times higher among these young declared gamblers than among adults.
This increase in young players at risk can be explained, according to Thomas Gaon, a psychologist at the Parisian hospital Marmottan, by "the advertising of operators who have decided to rejuvenate their audience" as well as by "the liberalization of online games" such as poker. and sports betting.
Faced with these developments, the National Gaming Authority (ANJ) recently examined and validated operators' prevention plans for minors.
They were thus asked to remind them better of the ban on gambling for minors and to carry out more checks in order to limit betting via their sites as much as possible.
An essential regulation according to Thomas Gaon.
"The younger you start, the more likely you are to fall into addiction and make it last," he said.
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