{"id":45986,"date":"2026-07-21T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/new-study-links-loot-boxes-to-gambling-problems-substance-abuse-and-mental-health-issues\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:58:51","slug":"new-study-links-loot-boxes-to-gambling-problems-substance-abuse-and-mental-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/new-study-links-loot-boxes-to-gambling-problems-substance-abuse-and-mental-health-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"New study links loot boxes to gambling problems, substance abuse, and mental health issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has shown that buying loot boxes in video games is linked to a wide range of problems, including substance abuse, gambling, and mental health issues.\u00a0 Researchers in Canada studied 3,709 adults who both gambled regularly and played video games. Around half of the participants reported purchasing loot boxes.\u00a0&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/loot-box-study-gambling-substance-abuse\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has shown that buying loot boxes in video games is linked to a wide range of problems, including substance abuse, gambling, and mental health issues.\u00a0 Researchers in Canada studied 3,709 adults who both gambled regularly and played video games. Around half of the participants reported purchasing loot boxes.\u00a0&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}