Gambling emergency in Campania, 3,300 people in treatment. The live broadcast with Dr. Nello Baselice

Campania holds first place in Italy for online gaming which in 2022 saw citizens spending almost 10 and a half million euros, 1,874 euros each, and it is also the first Italian region for open online gaming accounts, over three million. At a provincial level, the province of Salerno has another unenviable record: each citizen gambles for an average of 2,633 euros per year.

These are the data on which the Regional Observatory on Gambling Disorder, provided for by Regional Law No. 2/2020, has been working for a year. Gambling addiction affects not only adults but children and teenagers, who take advantage of the fact that gambling is practiced not only in physical facilities, but online, and this is the most worrying fact.

Governor De Luca recalled that in Campania there are over 3,300 people who are already being treated for gambling. The Salerno Local Health Authority is treating 1,094 of them. An important structure has been built in Sant’Arsenio nel Vallo di Diano with residences to accommodate the most serious cases, but an extraordinary effort must be made, especially to save the very young. In betting centers, minors should not go to gamble, but no one controls anything while instead action must be taken. The person in charge of the Sant’Arsenio facility is Dr. Nello Baselice, head of the ASL’s addiction psychopathology center and president of the regional Observatory on Gambling Disorder. He was our guest live this morning.

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Nello Baselice on regional gambling data
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