It's very certain and we all know that there have been an increasingly high rate of gambling among individuals of a country but clearly enough it's caused by so many things of which addiction is not one of them but rather addiction is as a result of uncontrolled gambling activities, so what I think has caused this rise possibly is due to greed and quest for quick money and then bad economy it's always the first criteria to always spot out, but in the other hand addiction is a slow poison and tend to be within thereby making the individual irresistible to gambling and leafing to a rise.