Teenage Gambling Addiction Education Needed At Local School

Title: Teenage Gambling Addiction Education Needed At Local Schools

Author: howard keith

Article:
For the past few years teenage gambling has been increasing at
an exponential rate. The increase in gambling can be contributed
to family members who gamble, multiple television programs like
poker tournaments and skillful advertising from the gambling
establishments. It's becoming an epidemic among our teenagers
with no real solution being presented to the educators of our
schools systems.

The new stream of commercials related to stop gambling has had
very little affect. The commercials are geared towards helping
people stop gambling but are not geared towards the individuals
who have not experienced gambling at this point in time. The
stop gambling commercials have not been able to reach the
teenager with a compulsive gambling addiction. They however may
reach the parents who may realize their child has a problem.

The only way to help our youth is to educate them in the
classroom and at home. I remember years ago in health class they
educated us on smoking and drinking. This was very effective on
those individuals who never started. But the ones that were
already addicted the educational programs were unable to reach
them.

There following educational curriculums are needed for today's
students:

a)Helpful Resources for identifying teenagers who may have a
compulsive gambling addiction.

b)Helping Teenagers identify their compulsive gambling addiction

c)Educating teenagers on compulsive gambling addiction. This one
is my favorite because this has the best opportunity to prevent
a teenager from gambling, helping teenagers identify the signs
of compulsive gambling addiction and if the teenager has a
problem with gambling.

d)Giving Teenagers the tools to identify others who may have a
gambling addiction like their parents. This one has to be
handled sensitively. I have received numerous emails from
teenagers who did not know where to go, who to talk to in order
to help a family member.

e)Educating Teenagers on the resources available to get help by
giving them the local stop gambling telephone numbers and
helpful stop gambling websites.

f)Understanding Compulsive Gambling Addiction

g)Practical exercises for teenagers with addictions to learn
about self esteem, trust and more.

The above educational curriculums are needed to help educate the
teenage population.

As each year passes the amount of teenager's addicted to
gambling increases. This increase is due to the increased
exposure. This exposure is due to the increase in the number of
cable and television gambling programs, advetising by local
gambling establishements, retailers jumping on poker craze
selling poker chips, the increase in the number of state lotto
drawings per day and the state advertising for their scratch off
tickets.

To a teenager this all seems very acceptable especially when
they see thier parernts gambling.

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