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Reply to "Study on free to play gambling apps and in-venue gambling from Australia"

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Thanks for sharing this article, Beth! There are a lot of important points here about the impacts of social casino games on youth and young adults and their later involvement in gambling.

To add to this, there was a paper that was published last year in our Journal of Gambling Issues by authors Michael Wohl and colleagues that discussed the good, the bad and the ugly of the relationship between social casino gaming and gambling. The authors discussed how social casino games could potentially lead to problem gambling later in life but also how social casino games could be a prevention/harm reduction strategy for some people, as these games parallel gambling but don't cost a cent. I think this is an interesting debate and one that will evolve as we learn more about social casino games.

What do others think - are social casino games helpful or harmful? What have you seen in your practice?

9/7/181:20 PM

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