Younger, Faster, Higher Stakes: 'Gambling Addiction in the 2020s' Special Feature Released

Ridilover Inc. (Headquarters: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; Representative: Toshiki Abe) has released a six-part structural feature titled 'Gambling Addiction in the 2020s' on its web media platform, 'Ridilover Journal,' which specializes in social issues. This feature explores the current reality where gambling addiction is becoming 'younger, faster, and higher stakes' in the 2020s, an era where smartphones and social media are deeply integrated into daily life, and examines the underlying factors based on field reports and various data. Key points include: [Younger] Consultations from the 20s and 30s have increased, accounting for about 80% of total cases in 2023. [Faster] About 30% of people incur their first debt within one week of starting online casinos. [Higher Stakes] The average debt amount has risen to 8.55 million yen in 2023. The feature analyzes these issues not as personal failings, but as problems linked to social structures, covering the ease of falling into addiction, the difficulty of escaping, and the challenges in building prevention and recovery systems.