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Gambling addiction: When the odds are stacked against you | The ...
Big Issue
Premiership footballers, top-flight cricketers, iPad bingo players, the man on the street – gambling addiction can happen to anyone and is rising sharply. But new ...

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BBC Sport
Gambling addicts must speak out and seek help - Brendan Rodgers
BBC Sport
Brendan Rodgers has urged players struggling with an addiction to gambling to talk about their problems. The Celtic manager was speaking in the wake of Burnley midfielder Joey Barton being banned from playing for 18 months for placing 1,260 bets on ...

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Hong Kong Standard (press release)
(Soccer betting) Gambling addict Barton turfed for playing to lose
Hong Kong Standard (press release)
English Premier League player Joey Barton was banned for 18 months yesterday after placing 1,260 bets on soccer over the last 11 years, including games he played in. The 34-year-old midfielder says the sanction by the English Football Association ...
Joey Barton exposes himself as a terrible gambler in defence of his banTelegraph.co.uk
Joey Barton banned from football for 18 months and fined £30000 for placing banned bets as he blames gambling ...Daily Mail
Joey Barton forced into 'early retirement' after being banned from football for 18 months over FA betting chargeThe Sun
7500 To Holte (blog) -Paste Magazine -GiveMeSport -Joey Barton
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McCook Daily Gazette
Most Nebraskans resist addiction to legalized gambling
McCook Daily Gazette
Gambling such as keno is growing, and the Nebraska Lottery is adding a new game, but problem gambling is a relatively small problem in the Cornhusker State, at least according to the benchmarks used by the personal website WalletHub. Nebraska is the ...

BBC Sport
Joey Barton: Burnley midfielder says he is addicted to gambling after FA ban
BBC Sport
Joey Barton has said he is addicted to gambling and criticised the Football Association for what he says is a "dependence on betting companies". The 34-year-old Burnley midfielder made the comments statement on his website, which you can read in full ...
Joey Barton confirms retirement after 18-month ban for betting offencesMetro

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Telegraph.co.uk
Joey Barton exposes himself as a terrible gambler in defence of his ban
Telegraph.co.uk
In the statement he shared on his own website, Barton, who admits to a gambling addiction, lists a series of bets he placed during 2006 and 2011. Of the 30 bets Barton shows evidence of, the former Manchester City, Newcastle, QPR and Rangers midfielder ...
What type of relationship does football want with gambling?7500 To Holte (blog)
Gambling addict Barton laments 18 months banThe Nation Newspaper
Joey Barton Has Been Banned From Football For 18 Months Over Gambling ChargesPaste Magazine
The Sun -Business Insider -GiveMeSport -Joey Barton
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KELO AM-FM
Gambling addiction grips South Dakota
KELO AM-FM
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - According to WalletHub, South Dakota is the second most gambling addicted state behind only Nevada. Jill Gonzales says South Dakota ranks third in gambling friendliness, with plenty of options, and ranks sixth in gambling ...
Alabama ranks 2017's least gambling-addicted stateAlabama Today
Florida among the least gambling-addicted states, WalletHub study findsOrlando Sentinel
Oregon is 8th most gambling-addicted state, new report findsOregonLive.com
Sunshine State News -AL.com -WalletHub
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Orlando Sentinel
Florida among the least gambling-addicted states, WalletHub study finds
Orlando Sentinel
Of the 50 states, Florida ranked No. 41 in a scale of “most addicted” to “least addicted.” The state ranked 31st in gambling friendliness (though this could change soon). WalletHub came up with its rankings by crunching several sets of numbers ...

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Echo
Gambling addict jailed for defrauding employers of £118k (From Echo)
Echo
A GAMBLING addict who conned £118000 out of his employers by fiddling customers' invoices has been jailed for more than three years.

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Lincolnshire Echo
Electrical wholesale worker stole goods to feed gambling addiction
Lincolnshire Echo
He was plagued by his addiction and so he made this terrible mistake to steal from his employers. "He is now regularly attending Gamblers' Anonymous. He is now in a position where he is not gambling. "He has a new partner and he has a newly-born son.

The Guam Daily Post (press release) (registration)
Free app provided to detect pachinko gambling addiction
The Guam Daily Post (press release) (registration)
A free smartphone app to assess, detect and warn about pachinko gambling addiction has been developed by a Japanese nonprofit organization that is helping to tackle the problem. The app evaluates users' level of addiction to pachinko and slot machines.

East Anglian Daily Times
Suffolk gambling addict who stole £11,000 from his grandmother is ...
East Anglian Daily Times
A man who cleaned his 82-year-old grandmother's bank account out of £11000 to fund his gambling addiction has been given a suspended jail term.

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YourErie
Suicide Common Among Gambling Addicts
YourErie
ERIE, Pa - Gambling addiction is a growing problem across the country, and Erie is no exception. Facebook killer Steve Stephens was known to have a gambling problem. Authorities knew Steve Stephens visited the casinos often, and according to his own ...

Good Shepherd tackles gambling addiction among homeless
The Catholic Register
The grant is being used to launch a three-year pilot project aimed at gambling addiction, a problem not defined by the amount of money you spend but rather by the negative impacts on your life, Wendaferew said. “The issue of gambling is not how much ...

Coventry Telegraph
Courts: Gambling addict stole tech from friend and sold goods for cash
Coventry Telegraph
A gambling addict stole thousands of pounds of items from a “good friend” in order to fund his addiction. Oritsetimeyin Nengite stole an Apple Macbook, iPhone 7 and Apple Watch from a flat at Mercia Lodge in the city centre and then sold them on to ...

Bel Marra Health
Brains of gambling addicts demonstrate excessive risk-taking behavior
Bel Marra Health
A study shows that gambling addicts may have altered brain activity exposing them to excessive risk taking behavior.
Psychology Of Gambling: Brains Of Gamblers Not As Good At ...Medical Daily

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Will casinos fuel addiction to gambling? | The Japan Times
The Japan Times
As the benefits of casinos were played up, their potential social cost was never seriously taken up in Diet discussions, including whether casinos would ...

EBONY.com
Did Debt, Gambling Addiction Cause the Facebook Slay Suspect to 'Snap'?
EBONY.com
As the manhunt for suspected killer Steve Stephens has nationwide, a picture of him has emerged which paints him as an exasperated person with heavy financial burdens, a gambling addiction and relationship problems that drove him to snap, resulting in ...
Facebook Video Killer Steve Stephens Known to Cleveland's JACK Casino as Big Gambler, Big LoserCasino.Org News
Gambler Steve Stephens: Evicted twice and declared $35K bankruptcyscallywagandvagabond

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News-Medical.net
Gambling addicts have poor ability to assess and adapt to high risk situations, fMRI study finds
News-Medical.net
Gambling addiction is a mental disorder characterized by excessive risk-taking despite negative results. Scientific studies using functional MRI -- fMRI, a method of looking at active areas of the brain -- have previously shown that addicts have ...
Gamblers May Fail To Take Risks In Real Life - News18News18

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The Korea Herald
[Graphic News] Korean Gambling addiction rises
The Korea Herald
The number of people diagnosed with a gambling addiction has increased due to economic plight. According to the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service, there were 925 such cases in 2015, already up from 751 in 2014, with a further rise to 1,113 ...