Online casinos have already and will continue to change the face of gambling in the United States.  Unfortunately, online casinos have not been around long enough for accurate studies to show whether their presence online has actually contributed to a rise in gambling addiction. As it stands now, there does not seem to be any particular spikes in compulsive gambling, but fear the online casinos will eventually have cause that to happen.

It is the 24 hour accessibility to online casinos that has people all shaken up.  Sure online casinos are convenient, but it does not mean it will create more gambling addicts.  However one confessed gambling addict decided to share his opinion about online casinos.  He has chosen, for the sake of anonymity, to only be referred to as Bill.

“The fact that it is available at the click of the mouse certainly makes it a force to be reckoned with,” said Bill.  He has been a member of Gamblers Anonymous for going on six years now to help him deal with his compulsive gambling tendencies.

There is no surprise that organizations created to help compulsive gamblers are seeing more and more people that are gambling at online casinos.  That certainly has happened because online casinos were not an option a few years ago, but it does not necessarily mean that online casinos are the cause of more compulsive gambling.

“If they try it online and they like it, they will keep going back,” said Bill.  And according to him, sometimes it only takes on big win to hook a person with gambling addiction. 

“There never seems to be a big enough winning to help the smallest dream come true because it is all about the action.”