More clinics are offering services to help crypto addiction. But how bad is this emerging problem?
For years society has been increasingly concerned about gambling addiction, and rightly so. Gambling addiction is responsible for untold damage to families and communities. However, experts and psychologists have identified a new and growing problem: crypto addiction.
Multiple clinics have begun offering programs to help patients with this emerging illness. Castle Craig, a Scottish residential rehab clinic established in 1988 by Peter and Dr. Margaret Ann McCann, which has since expanded internationally, is one such center. In 2016, they became one of the world’s first treatment centers to offer a program for treating dependence on crypto trading.
‘More Volatile And Exciting Than Gambling’
Anthony Marini, a senior specialist therapist at Castle Craig, believes it’s a problem going under the radar. “If you think that there is about 3% of the U.K. population addicted to gambling, then in my estimation, there is roughly 5% with a problem with crypto.”
“It’s more volatile and exciting than gambling,” he says. “We are seeing more and more people with a problem year on year.”
Anthony saw his first crypto addiction case all the way back in 2016. Since then, Castle Craig has seen over 250 patients with the problem. Including a marked increase after the collapse of FTX last year.
In many ways, crypto addiction sh
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