The proportion of Islanders at risk from gambling tripled between 2005 and 2019, according to a prevalence study delivered to the P.E.I. government more than two years ago.
The study, which was only released to the public last month, concluded 11,137 Prince Edward Islanders were at some level of risk from gambling, or 8.6 per cent of the adult population.
A prior 2005 study had put the number at 2.8 per cent.
“It is difficult to determine how much of this increase may be due to differences in the way this information was collected, but the increase warrants attention and further investigation,” the authors of the 2019 review concluded.
