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UK – GAMSTOP marks fifth anniversary with highest numberof self-exclusions in a single month
By 菲尔 -24年2023月XNUMX日
The UK’s independent online self-exclusion scheme, GAMSTOP, recorded 8,504 registrations in March, its highest ever figure in a single month, and a 24 per cent year-on-year increase.
在 GAMSTOP 成立五周年前夕，自我排斥人数出现前所未有的激增。 该服务于 2018 年 2020 月推出，并于 XNUMX 年 XNUMX 月成为所有英国运营商除了运营自己的自我排除计划外与该计划整合的许可条件。
从 GAMSTOP 成立到 365,000 年 2023 月底，已有超过 330,000 人在 GAMSTOP 上注册，选择在六个月、一年或五年内将自己排除在所有英国运营商之外，仍有近 XNUMX 人被排除在外。
自我排斥激增最可能的解释是切尔滕纳姆音乐节，该音乐节于 12 月 15 日至 XNUMX 日举行，吸引了数亿英镑的赌注。 注册人数最多的日子是在音乐节刚结束的时候。
GAMSTOP 最近委托独立研究机构 Sonnet 对其用户样本进行了采访，并在 2021 年对该服务进行了全面评估，结果表明 84% 的人在注册后感觉更安全，不会受到与赌博相关的伤害，并且可以更好地控制他们的赌博。
受访者表示，GAMSTOP 提供了一个重要的安全网，知道排除在外有助于他们康复，因为这让他们感到安全。 许多人希望选择终生排除，并认为这有助于表明赌博成瘾的严重性，类似于酗酒或吸毒，并消除社会耻辱感。
Fiona Palmer, CEO of GAMSTOP, said: “Our most recent data shows that, five years after our inception, GAMSTOP is providing an increasingly important service to potentially vulnerable consumers who want to take a break from gambling. The record monthly registrations shows that we cannot underestimate the demand for a scheme such as GAMSTOP. It is extremely important that we continue to raise awareness to make sure that anyone who needs us knows about us. We also need to continue to listen to our users and develop and improve the scheme to meet their needs.
GAMSTOP registrant Jack Scott spokeabout the impact GAMSTOP has had on his life: “I signed up to GAMSTOP in December 2020 and its impact has been nothing short of life-changing. Prior to signing up for GAMSTOP, I suffered from a lengthy addiction to online gambling that saw me gamble away a terrifying amount of money, often money which I didn’t have.
Since then, I’ve been able to take comfort in the fact that I am unable to access or gamble on those online sites and have been able to commit myself to my real passion of ultrarunning, something I simply wouldn’t have been able to do without GAMSTOP.
I encourage anyone who thinks that they might be suffering from a gambling-related issue to research GAMSTOP or to take advantage of the TalkBanStop partnership, which combines self-exclusion with device blocking software, bank blocks and getting the support you might need through Gamcare”.
