{"id":556143,"date":"2025-07-17T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=556143"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:12:07","slug":"pocket-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/pocket-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocket problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By 2028, global losses caused by online gambling websites are forecast to reach US$700 billion. This was the warning issued by an international commission assembled by the scientific journal <em>Lancet Public Health<\/em>, which highlights the growing reach of online gambling due to widespread access to smartphones, legalization, and the arrival of commercial betting in new parts of the world. This includes low- and middle-income countries, where regulatory infrastructure is often weak and gambling companies often use digital influencer campaigns. \u201cGambling, in some form at least, is now legally permitted in more than 80% of countries worldwide,\u201d wrote the authors. As a result, 10.3% of teenagers have gambled online, while 5.5% of women and 11.9% of men have engaged in risky gambling. An estimated 80 million adults worldwide suffer from gambling-related disorders. The damage to health and well-being is more extensive than previously thought and affects other people around the gambler (<a href=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/proliferation-of-betting-sites-increases-household-spending-and-risk-of-gambling-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>see<\/em> Pesquisa FAPESP <em>issue n\u00ba 344<\/em><\/a>). The report calls for greater preventive regulatory controls, which can only be effective when coordinated globally (<em>Lancet Public Health<\/em>, October 24).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global losses from online gambling could reach $700 billion by 2028","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[225,390,260],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-556143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-economy","tag-law","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556144,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556143\/revisions\/556144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556143"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=556143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}