State Striking It Rich With Problem Gambling Fund

Published March 7, 2013

State striking it rich with problem gambling fund

Filed under: gambling addiction help

THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL. FILE PHOTO/THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL. Gov. Sam Brownback's proposed budgeting of revenue from casinos that has been earmarked for helping gambling addicts conflicts with the recommendation of problem gambling counselors.
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Temptations lurking for problem gamblers

Filed under: gambling addiction help

The Indiana Council on Problem Gambling works to ensure that resources and efforts to help those affected by the negative consequences of gambling are available to the 3 percent of gamblers who will develop a gambling addiction. The ICPG maintains a …
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When policy kings ruled

Filed under: gambling addiction help

They had little patience for the argument that gambling is, at best, a vice, and at worst, an addiction. In 1903, a black pastor, the Rev. R.C. Ransom sermonized on the evils of policy, whereupon his church was bombed. Ransom said he wouldn't be …
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