Tata Laksana Overcome People Addicted To Online Gambling

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JAKARTA - People who experience online gambling addiction can be given comprehensive initial management and also prevention for their recovery. There are several signs that can be recognized in someone who is addicted to online gambling. Consultant mental specialist from the National Central General Hospital dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Jakarta Dr. dr. Kristiana Siste Sp.KJ Subsp. AD(K) said the management started from finding out indications of their addiction from lies and bet factors, where online gambling actors are willing to bet more than their abilities.

In addition, education to family and society, then do diagnosis and therapy. And lastly, the relaxation prevention therapy therapy, namely therapy for recurrence prevention. Because if the addiction is a chronic disease whose nature is relaxing disease, so recurrence prevention therapy is very important to use. Especially for online gambling, access is very easy, said Dr Siste quoted from ANTARA Friday, July 26. Another treatment is to improve comorbidity and side effects due to online gambling addiction, for example there are physical symptoms, idea of ending life, and depression disorders, improving social, physical, and mental functions, also improving the quality of life, both a healthy lifestyle and good quality of sleep. In addition to psychotherapy, it can also be given drug therapy, because many parts of the brain are damaged so that there is very high impulsive behavior. This drug to reduce this impulsiveity so psychotherapy can be given better. And there is also the latest therapy, namely brain simulations,'' added educators in the School of Medicine's Medical Science Study Program, University of Indonesia. Early screening is also needed to detect a person experiencing gambling addiction, and the sooner the person is treated so that brain damage is not getting wider. Siste said by the world epidemiology, it is said that around 1.4 percent of the adult age undergoes problematic gambling that leads to gambling disorders. While in Indonesia at the same age there are 2 percent of people who are addicted to gambling.

Even teenagers are vulnerable to gambling addiction, which is 0.2 to 12.3 percent in the world. Those who have experienced problems with their addiction, and can no longer be responsible for what is at stake in online gambling games. "Because indeed he already has high factors to experience gambling addiction. So he must be absent or not gambling at all," he said. Siste also said that eradicating online gambling requires the cooperation of all parties, both the government that must eradicate online gambling websites, to health workers to provide prevention education.