HISTORY ABOUT GAMBLING ADDICTION
In 1979 Dr. Robert Custer started the National Foundation for Study of Pathological Gambling. He invited Sheila and me to join him. He thought he was going to raise enough money to cover the entire cost of treatment for any gambler who wanted treatment for gambling addiction. We [...]

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I stopped gambling on April 10, 1968. At that time gambling in America looked very different than it does today. Legal casinos were only in Las Vegas. There was no such thing as Internet gambling. There were no cell phones. There were no credit cards or ATM machines. There weren’t any check cashing privileges at [...]

In the 42 years that we have been helping compulsive gamblers, we have never seen anything explode like poker has. Poker is sweeping the nation and the world. It is the hottest thing on college campuses. It is easier to play poker then it is to buy cigarettes or a can of beer on campuses [...]

FROM AN ARTICLE
26 May 2006
by Ed Vogel
Las Vegas Review Journal Professional poker player and television commentator Howard Lederer said the charm of poker is that “people at home believe they can be part of it. Anyone can win. Occasionally you get a guy who [...]

You would not expect to open your local newspaper and get a price list of illegal drugs for sale; But that’s just about what you can get today when you open your local newspaper to the sports pages all over the country. True, you don’t see drug prices but you do see lines and point [...]

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Goldman Sachs was having their clients gambling with their money when they took no risk and only had a win win situation for them selfs.
Is the stock market the biggest roulette wheel in America?
Was Goldman Sachs pushing individual products into numerous borrowing tools to effect huge fee income and passing risk to 3rd [...]

Football’s biggest game offers greatest temptation to sports gamblers.
“Playoff games and the Super Bowl are to the compulsive gamblers what New Year’s Eve is to the alcoholic,” says Arnie Wexler, a leading expert on the subject of compulsive gambling and a recovering compulsive gambler himself.
According to the National Gambling Study Commission, there are 5 million [...]