Massachusetts Governor Patrick's legislation proposed setting aside $50 million per year to treat gambling addiction maybe predicated on a 5% rate of addiction even thought Louisiana reports a 7% rate of gambling addiction.
Our neighbors to the north report --
The government's own report, commissioned in 2003, supports these theories. Where the province estimates that 4.6 per cent of British Columbian gamblers are addicts, the "Problem Gambling Prevalence Study" estimated that 9.9 per cent of Internet gamblers have a moderate or severe problem. That one-in-10 figure was suggested long before Internet gambling became a mainstream phenomenon.
This is Gambling's Dirty Little Secret.
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