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Conference to Help Gambling Addiction

A recent conference on gambling addiction brought up many questions as to how gambling might be deterred or cured. The National Center for Responsible Gaming held a conference at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, to see if they could answer some of those questions.

Christine Riley, the executive director for the group, said that the psychology of the gambler has a lot to do with who will be a gambler, and how they might be able to help them. The fact that when a gambler cannot quit they need help, is something of a new idea to many people. They think that it isn’t alcohol; it isn’t drugs, so why can’t they just stop? It is not given the seriousness that it needs in order to become a manageable addiction. "In the past, we haven't had good research, but that has changed,” Reilly said. "We hope this idea shapes the whole conference from this point on, what we find from our research will become the building blocks to establishing practices within the industry that are guided by science and are effective means to treating acute gambling addictions."

The group spoke regarding what avenues addicted gamblers had open and available to them currently, and also talked about new strides being made daily in medicine and psychotherapy that might help going forward.

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