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Tribes and states focus on problem gambling solutions
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Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
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March 15, 2006
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- Johnson, Jean
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Johnson, Jean
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
03-15-2006
PORTLAND, Ore. -- The dramatic rise of Indian gaming in the past decades
has brought the subject of problem gambling squarely into the public
debate. National Problem Gambling Awareness Week, March 6 -- 12, was staged
this year to educate gamblers and their families about how gambling can
become a problem as well as suggest ways in which compulsive gamblers can
access help.
The country has come a long way from the 1930s, when gambling was revived
in Nevada. According to Charles Wellford, professor of criminology and
criminal justice at the University of Maryland and author of the National
Justice Journal article, "When It's No Longer a ...
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