The web site furthers our mission to raise public awareness and disseminate educational information related to problem gambling. The Web site helps make quality problem gambling information widely available and allow our message to reach people in new and innovative ways. Problem gambling is gambling behavior which causes disruptions in any major area of life: psychological, physical, social or vocational.
Q. How extensive is problem gambling and what are the consequences?
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The web site furthers our mission to raise public awareness and disseminate educational information related to problem gambling. The Web site helps make quality problem gambling information widely available and allow our message to reach people in new and innovative ways. Problem gambling is gambling behavior which causes disruptions in any major area of life: psychological, physical, social or vocational.
Q. How extensive is problem gambling and what are the consequences?
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A. A recent research study was done by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, in collaboration with three other research groups, on behalf of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission. The research group reported that:
' Based upon criteria developed by the American Psychiatric Association, we estimate that about 2.5 million adults are pathological gamblers and another 3 million adults should be considered problem gamblers. Extending these criteria more broadly, 15 million (American) adults are at risk for problem gambling, and about 148 million are low-risk gamblers (about 129 million adults have never gambled).'
'……Pathological and problem gamblers are more likely than other gamblers or non-gamblers to have been on welfare, declared bankruptcy, and to have been arrested or incarcerated.'
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'…….Pathological and problem gamblers in the United States cost society approximately $5 billion per year and an additional $40 billion in lifetime costs for productivity reductions, social services, and creditor losses. However, these calculations are inadequate to capture the intra-familial costs of divorce and family disruption associated with problem and pathological gambling.'
