BIPOC Communities
WHY DO AFRICAN AMERICANS AND BIPOC GAMBLE?
✓ Young African Americans have the highest rates of gambling disorders in the United States
✓ African Americans people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods with low incomes are more likely to be affected by gambling
✓ Casinos are often located closer to inner-city communities, which can increase the temptation to gamble.
QUICK FACTS
✓ In a study of 32,316 of African Americans and White Females, African Americans Females Gambled 49% of African American females had a problem with gambling as opposed to 34% of white females.
✓ African Americans are two times as likely (2.2%) to experience a gambling problem
✓African American people have over twice the rate of gambling addictions as white people
✓ African American’s start gambling at a younger age than white youth, which can lead to problem gambling and addiction later in life
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WARNING SIGNS
✓ Preoccupation
✓ Borrowing Money
✓ Selling personal items
✓ Irritability, Restlessness, Withdrawal
✓ Delay payment of bills
✓ Loss of pension benefits
✓ Loss of Social Security benefits
✓ Neglecting household duties
✓ Decline in personal hygiene
✓ Decline in health
✓ Alienation from family and friends
✓ Inability to cut back or stop gambling
✓ Extreme guilt or shame
✓ Disappear for extended periods of time
✓ Suicidal thought
Patterns of Gambling and Substance Use Initiation in African American and White Adolescents and Young Adults. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Vol.34(2). 382-391. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000531 PMID: 31750700 ISSN: 0893-164X.