'Silent addiction' on campus: gambling

From Chicago-Sun Times --

One in four college men gamble on sports on a monthly basis, while more than one in two take part in any form of gambling -- including card-playing or going to casinos -- according to surveys by Don Romer, who has researched high school and college gambling rates for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

In fact, problem gambling has become such a concern that the national Task Force on College Gambling Policies last month issued a report saying universities should campaign against it to the same degree they fight drug and alcohol use.

...problem gambling went from 6.1 percent of students in 2007 to 7.8 percent last year.

Nearly 15 percent of 636 college athletes Kerber surveyed -- including one in five males but only one in 20 females -- are problem or pathological gamblers.