English 1 Assignment:
Online Gambling
Over the past decade, the internet has created dozens of businesses, making thousands of people wealthy. Among these successful businesses lies Online Gambling. Because of online gambling, people now don't have to even leave their home to spend away all their savings, they can do it in the comfort of their own home. Online gambling has become a problem; so much of a problem that institutions have been created in order to treat problem gamblers that need to recover from their negative gambling addiction. Some people however, can argue that casinos shouldn't spend their profit on institutions that treat problem gamblers since its the persons own fault for gambling away their own money.
Because it is a persons own fault that they gambled away their own money, the argument presented in the upper paragraph may seem like a valid one, however, gambling shouldn't be seen as a hobby, but like an addiction. Gambling is common among adults of all ages, but it’s when an adult starts losing all their money that gambling can be considered addictive. Even though it may not be considered an addiction by many, some online institutions, like the Mayo Clinic, have this addiction listed under “compulsive gambling” or “gambling disorder”. The website for the Mayo Clinic lists specific causes, symptoms, complications, and treatments a person can take in order to get rid of these gambling habits. It’s because of this, that casinos should be the ones to treat these gambling habits since they are the ones that initiated the problem in the first place.
http://online.lbcc.edu/pluginfile.php/364576/mod_resource/content/1/Online%20Gambling.pdf
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/compulsive-gambling/basics/definition/con-20023242
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