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Gambling Addiction
At its basic core, gambling is a fun and harmless way to increase the interest and enjoyment of sports action. However, the fact is for certain people gambling can become addictive. As casino and sports gambling expands outside of Las Vegas and Atlantic City through both Internet gambling websites and increasingly favorable legislation for on site gambling on a state-by-state basis, new outlets for individuals to develop gambling addictions have developed.
Recent statistics from Gamblers Anonymous suggest that four to six percent of gamblers eventually become problem gamblers or pathological (compulsive) gamblers. While this is a small percentage of the total number of people gambling, when you consider the millions of people who gamble each year the raw numbers of problem gamblers are significant.
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