Problem Gambler News Today

>> it exploits the poorest numbers of our society. you go until the last dollar is gone. >> 20% of states do not provide a single penny public wanting to prevent or treat gambling addiction. states that duke spent less than $0.25 per gambler per year. >> this to be the same thing as being a state choosing not to fund drug abuse programs. if you show some on the mri of a problem gambler, the brain of a problem gambler looks indistinguishable from a brain of a cocaine addict. they have those same ...

And of those recommendations, only one is for the federal government to prohibit any kind of gambling. and that was to prohibit internet gambling. the reason is, our research showed that its essentially predatory form of gambling. and by predatory i mean this, if you put a virtual casino in every home, in every room of every home potentially and every dorm, every office of every building, then two populations at least are very vulnerable to that, the young and those who have a natural vulnerabil...