Recognizing a gambling problem – Jerry Bauerkemper, executive director of the Nebraska Council on Compulsive Gambling, talks about recognizing when someone you’re close to has a problem.

 

In Nevada, online gambling poised to go interstate

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Richard McGowan, a gambling industry expert at Boston College, says Nevada is betting that online gaming will not cannibalize the state's real world casinos, but instead help the industry recruit new gamblers. “I guess their rationale is that people …
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New-age addiction proves troublesome for college students

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Watch out drugs, alcohol and gambling. There is a new addiction in town. And the problem is, this one might be geared toward college students more than anyone else. According to the Illinois Institue for Addiction Recovery's website, Internet addiction …
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State Aims to Lift Curbs on a Lottery That Beguiles

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But anti-gambling groups have forcefully criticized the proposal, arguing that Quick Draw, like other forms of gambling, extracts money from the people who can least afford to risk it, while also fostering gambling addiction. As the state has sought to …
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