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Tue 10 Oct 2008Meeting hears call to change law on betting
PROBLEM GAMBLING is "the worst of all addictions" but its role in public policy debates has been profoundly abused, a conference on gambling has been told.
The compulsion to gamble can be treated but that still left the problem of the debts run up by gambling addicts, according to Peter Collins, director of the Centre for the Studies of Gambling at the University of Salford. "The liver of an alcoholic recovers a great deal faster than the bank balances of a compulsive gambler".
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