judge ruled in favor<\/a> of plaintiffs in 2018, ordering the Aristocrat-led company to reimburse players a total of $155 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nTo this day, some people have asserted that they still have not received their funds.<\/p>\n
Gambling Addiction or Brain Malfunction?<\/h2>\n
The US National Library of Medicine cites a study that shows that the prevalence of pathological gambling in the US is about 1%. It also states that 86% of the population have admitted to gambling at some point in their lives \u2013 60% do it every year.<\/p>\n
From this, it’s easy to conclude that the act of gambling does not lead to gambling addiction. If that were the case, the penetration rate of pathological gamblers would be higher. Instead, other mitigating factors come into play.<\/strong><\/p>\nAmong the suggestions are a chemical imbalance in the brain and a problem with the dopamine neurotransmitters. Dopamine delivers the feeling of pleasure to the brain. This is why some psychologists have argued that, when dopamine regulation is out of whack, those individuals will look for anything to increase the pleasure sensation. If it isn’t gambling, it will be something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A women in Tasmania spent three years bilking money from her employer so she could gamble on Facebook. She now faces six years in jail following a judge’s rejection of her appeal for a reduced sentence. Rachel Naomi Perri decided that she simply couldn’t live without the online slot game, Heart of Vegas. She was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":204714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22988],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Facebook Gambler from Tasmania Defrauds Almost $1M from Employer - Casino.org<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n