Britain’s public healthcare chief flags rise in crypto trading addiction
NHS boss Amanda Pritchard called for action, saying specialist clinics are seeing a rise in young people with crypto trading addictions.

The United Kingdom’s National Health Service chief executive Amanda Pritchard is calling on British lawmakers to take action to prevent young people from becoming addicted to crypto trading.

Speaking at the ConfedExpo of NHS managers in Manchester on June 12, Pritchard said earlier this year, the NHS opened its fifteenth specialist gambling addiction clinic in response to “a real and growing social need.”

“As a society, we need to ask: Are we okay to just continue picking up the pieces while the methods employed to keep people hooked get ever more sophisticated,” she said.

“Evermore opportunities spring up for younger people to get addicted to gambling, including — as I heard from staff when I visited the national problem gambling clinic earlier this year — on unregulated cryptocurrency markets.”
The Times reported Pritchard later said, “The addictive habit sees people investing their own money in something with no fixed value, with the NHS left to pick up the pieces — this growing problem could create further demand for the health service.”

She told conferencegoers that questions need to be asked about “what we want the NHS to do with finite resources.”

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