‘Free Life’ is an “evil alliance” between the crisis and gambling addiction.

Antonio Brown said that among the concerns of the association “is a fundamental” and that is that there is “an evil alliance, and certainly unintentional” between the current economic situation and creating “increasingly frequent” in new lines and new gambling, which until now were unknown.

So, he explained that those affected by pathological gambling, “from despair,” seek “to cling to something, because to the extent that the less affluent economic classes will be affected by the economic situation will go” to the coup money that they can resolve their situation. ” This, he said, the first part of the evil alliance, circumstantial and not attributable to anyone. “

In addition, the coordinator said that another of the major concerns as the center “is the fact that women” are still the major problem of pathological gambling, “not just because one third of the population of those affected are women, but also by the fact that women “do not come to the treatments.” According to Brown, “if for every two men affected one woman for every ten men who come to ‘Free Life’ comes only a woman.”

In this way, asserted that “there is a high percentage of women still suffering from hiding the problem without the cooperation family.” In this sense, Brown said the situation “is confirmed that virtually all the husbands are accompanied by their wives,” when they are the players, but when women are the players “are accompanied by his sister or his mother, but in general, rarely, if ever, is accompanied by her partner. ”

Population

young

Another concern of the association is that 86 percent of those affected by pathological gambling “is a young population,” between 12 to 30 years. Thus, 19 per cent of those affected began before age 18, 18 per cent to 18, although the coordinator emphasized that the association “does not have an epidemiological study,” and, moreover, that no know “how it is evolving in the general population, but only indirectly,” with the people it serves “the association.

Another aspect for Brown is that “managers of casinos to comment that they were not interested because it has ludópatas give a bad image” for the casino. However, he explained that “when ‘Free Life’ has offered cooperation” to prevent the situation from increased pathological or players to be able to care for those affected and to curb the disease “we have found a silence.”

Brown explained that it is “an important business and absolutely legal, and therefore they can not reproach anything about the legality,” but stressed that it is “generating victims” in a high percentage of the population. In this regard, opined that “the presence of the new casino in the center of Alicante, will increase enormously.”

With regard to casinos, commented that “until now the casinos were built and were carried out on the outskirts of cities”, by that fact away from the inner cities “that prevented the majority of people come to them. ” The fact that they are at the center, from their point of view, provided “enormously access and availability” and that is one of the factors that determines the addictive potential of a given activity.