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Centralförbundet för Alkohol-och Narkotikaupplysning (CAN), Sweden’s central agency monitoring addiction behaviours, has warned of a higher risk of prevalence in teenagers being drawn to gambling.  The caution follows a study undertaken by CAN researchers that surveyed 24,000 students attending Gymnasium –  Sweden’s upper secondary school system. The state-operated Gymnasium system is open to Swedish children aged 16 years to prepare …

Spelfriheten, a Swedish clinic that specialises in outpatient treatment for gambling addiction,  has reported a ‘marked increase in its services since the pandemic’.  The Stockholm clinic, which provides free and confidential digital meetings for at-risk players and their relatives, has branded the first half of 2022 as its busiest period providing treatment services.   During the first half of the year, …