Gambling News by Gambling Headquarters

As many as one million individuals each year might become addicted to gambling on the Net due to a new piece of legislation, a professional has suggested. Professor Jim Orford, of Birmingham University, feels that the Government is "naive" and "playing dice" with the health of some members of the public over its proposals to change gambling laws. The Gambling Act 2005, which will completely come into effect in September 2007, liberalises some of the laws on this pastime. Prof Orford informed the BBC's Panoroma series:"Gradually we're going to realise it's a much bigger problem than we thought. "More people are going to know friends and family members who've got problems. Health authorities are going to be under pressure to provide treatment. "We could be talking about a million people affected by it in any one period of 12 months, and that begins to put it on a par with drug addiction problems."