PSA – Play By The Rules – The Virginia Lottery is marking National Problem Gambling Awareness Week, March 3-9, 2013, with the release of two public service announcements (PSAs) for te…

 

Conservative AM's call to raise awareness of gambling addiction

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Tory AM Mohammad Asghar AM called on the Welsh Government to do more to raise awareness of the risks to health posed by an addiction to gambling. The South Wales East Am referred to a report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists which investigated …
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Gambler 'glad to be Twitter shamed'

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"They'll be grateful that you've come out and asked for the help, don't try and hide it away." Adrian Scarf, of support charity Gamcare, told the programme that gambling was a common problem among sportsmen and women as unlike other addictions such as …
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2012 sales tax to go toward sidewalk, tennis courts

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issued a proclamation promoting Problem Gambling Awareness Week March 3 through 9 and they heard about free help to people in Kansas with a gambling problem. • heard about a change in the temporary notes they approved at their last meeting.
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Jamie Gwen Hammond awarded 000 after taking of unclaimed poker …

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It had been Ms Hammond's first permanent full time job and she had undergone training in problem gambling and harm minimisation awareness. On December 5, 2011, a patron asked Ms Hammond to change $ 24 in coins won from a pokie machine into …
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