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The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

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An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino
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Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers
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And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market
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Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those
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What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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