Problems related to the large number of casinos and betting shops, as well as the lack of other social activities for young people, are something that many towns and cities in Serbia are facing. Aleksinac is one of them. Why are young people more susceptible to falling into this vicious circle? Is the solution just to move the betting shop a little further from the school?
Video games work on the principle of dopamine and seratonin secretion, which cause addiction, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Marija Manojlović told Vreme. The profits of the gaming industry are skyrocketing year after year
Research shows that 30 percent of children under the age of 16 had contact with betting. Children start betting already in the seventh grade, during the big vacation, one of the older ones goes and pays the ticket for them, psychotherapist Jelena Manojlović from the SOS Center told the "Vremena" portal. This clinic warns that gambling is just as deadly as alcoholism and drug addiction
Minister of Health Danica Grujičić said that the final works on the relocation of the Day Hospital for Addictive Diseases from Paunova Street in Banjica to the area in Vračar are in progress.
