Sweden’s state-owned gaming operator Svenska Spel has agreed to finance a new research project on gambling dependency as the company looks to better understand and treat the problem.
The operator said that up to three per cent of all Swedish citizens have a gambling problem, prompting it to establish research into the dependency at Lund University. It will commit SEK2.5m (€267,624) to fund research over the next five years.
The project is to be led by Anders Håkansson, [...]