{"id":246674,"date":"2025-10-28T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246674\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:42:09","slug":"nearly-3-5-million-aussies-admit-they-are-problem-or-at-risk-gamblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246674\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 3.5 million Aussies admit they are problem or at-risk gamblers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 3.5 million Australians admit they are problem or at-risk gamblers, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Of this, 622,000 people confessed they are problem gamblers, a figure that has risen 22 per cent from last year, the survey of nearly 17,000 Aussies over 18 by Roy Morgan said.<\/p>\n<p>Problem gambling can be defined as a compulsive urge to gamble despite the negative impacts it could have on your financial, physical or mental health.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ea9da078-2008-4425-9115-bd46274ca367.jpeg\"   alt=\"More details are emerging about the NSW premier's plan for cashless cards to be used in pokies.\"\/>More Aussies admit they are problem gamblers. (Edwina Pickles)<\/p>\n<p>The research reveals younger Australians are more susceptible to problem gambling.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of those who say they are problem gamblers are under 35, with 4.6 per cent of them being between 18-24-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A look at who the &#8216;problem gamblers&#8217; are shows a concentration among younger Australians aged under 50,&#8221; CEO of Roy Morgan Michele Levine said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a0aa9712-d79c-41ec-b40b-6a9c94eb9c32.png\"   alt=\"Roy Morgan 2025 gambling study Australia\"\/>Younger Aussies are becoming stuck in a cycle of gambling. (Roy Morgan)The most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aihw.gov.au\/reports\/australias-welfare\/gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"government data\">government data<\/a> revealed Australians spent over $31 billion on gambling, the highest figure ever.<\/p>\n<p>This leads to significant financial stress and challenges for some.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3.7 per cent of Aussies at risk of mortgage stress and 4.1 per cent of people at extreme risk of mortgage stress are problem gamblers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[This shows] problem gamblers are also likely to face other challenges,&#8221; Levine added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 3.5 million Australians admit they are problem or at-risk gamblers, according to a new study. Of this,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-246674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}