The Internet as the New Gambling Frontier

I've never met Professor Adell, but her book moved me to help understand how law abiding, good citizens get sucked into Gambling Addiction.

When a country betrays its compact with its citizens and begin to prey on them instead of sound fiscal policy, where are we?

When your spouse, child, parent or friend bankrupts himself/herself because of Gambling Addiction, will you begin to understand? And when they commit a crime to fund that Gambling Addiction or commit SUICIDE, how will you defend wrong-headed policy through your tears and grief?

The Internet as the New Gambling Frontier by Sandy Adell

No matter how loud we holler, those of us who oppose gambling have still been unable to convince our elected officials that legalized gambling to help raise revenue is a really bad idea. Now some of them are clamoring to legalize internet gambling. That's going to be disastrous for millions of people in this country. They won't have to leave the comfort of their favorite easy chair to lose the millions (maybe billions) of dollars our leaders hope to collect in new revenue.

Once this floodgate is opened, there will be no turning back. As I have stated in other blog posts and during readings and lectures about my book, Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen: A Memoir, gambling is not a harmless activity. It already is having very devastating effects on millions of people.

A recent article in U.S. News & World Report by Daniel Bortz, is yet another attempt to raise public awareness about the negative effects of gambling on people who have no idea that it can be deadly addictive. Fortunately, I found my way out of the labyrinth that is gambling addiction before it was too late. But what about the millions of people who will get caught up in and lose everything to gambling once it become just a keystroke away?

Sandra Adell, Author, CONFESSIONS OF A SLOT MACHINE QUEEN: A MEMOIR.