Informe sobre adicciones comportamentales y otros trastornos adictivos: España 2024

The Observatorio Español de las Drogas y las Adicciones (OEDA) and the Delegación del Gobierno para el Plan Nacional sobre Drogas published this 2024 monographic report on behavioural addictions in Spain. It draws on the EDADES general-population survey (ages 15-64) and the ESTUDES school survey (ages 14-18), covering gambling, problematic internet use, video game use, cryptocurrency and stock trading, and pornography, plus a national indicator of treatment admissions for behavioural addictions. The EDADES 2024 fieldwork ran from 12 February to 21 June 2024 with 26,878 valid questionnaires, while ESTUDES data are from 2023 with 42,208 valid student questionnaires.

In EDADES 2024, 53.8% of people aged 15 to 64 gambled in the last 12 months, with online gambling at 5.5% and in-person gambling at 52.9%. Possible problematic gambling, based on a DSM-5 scale, was estimated at 1.4% of the 15-64 population, falling to 0.7% among women. Among ESTUDES 2023 students, 21.5% had gambled in the last 12 months, and 5.1% showed a possible video game use disorder on a DSM-5 scale.

For treatment admissions, 4,670 admissions for behavioural addictions were reported in 2022, of which 82.0% were for gambling. The report notes that the increase over 2021 is attributed to more thorough reporting.