Great article showing the real problems of gambling but I don't think that the industry itself is all to blame. People are grown-ups, they have to take full responsibility for their behaviors. When someone has addiction issues, he has to figure out the way to handle with these issues. No one said life's gonna be easy.
All of us have its own demons to fight with. No matter if caused by gambling, alcohol, drugs, shopping, eating or anything else. Finding the median is the key.
That's the reason why gambling sites will ask you if you are 18+ above before you can proceed to gamble because they want to ensure that you are at the right age and you are already mature which you can make your own decision to and to stay responsible when gambling.
They are just asking, not verifying, so there would be no total standard that is being set by this platform, well it's pretty hard task to do for them to verify so it does not bother us anyways. Gambling is kind of like a vice, and when it is a vice you need to take a full responsibility of it, like a cigarette you can't get one if you don't have money to buy right? and it affects your body negatively. I hope most of us here is just gambling for the sake of entertainment, well of course to make money.