America, We Have a Gambling Problem
By: picaresque
A US gambling problem? Ask over 1 million pathological gamblers in California.
The Office of Problem Gambling (OPG) unleashed recently the most comprehensive prevalence study ever conducted on the United States gambling problem. The verdict: America is in big trouble.
Gambling in the US generated a revenue of $72.87 billion in 2003. Land-based casinos nationwide made $4.74 billion in state tax revenue in 2005. The OPG study on problem gambling was undertaken lengthily and meticulously — through a multi-lingual telephone survey between 2005 and 2006.
A critical inclusion amongst survey respondents were residents aged 18 and over of California, the most populous and one of the wealthiest states of the US. California gambling statistics 
collected provide a perturbing microcosmic picture of how gambling has taken hold of America.
A highlight of the OPG study, California has between 750,000 and 1.2 million adults considered to be pathological gamblers. Problem and pathological gambling are especially high among males, those with disabilities, and those who are unemployed.
The American Psychiatric Association defines pathological gambling as “an impulse control disorder that is a chronic and progressive mental illness”. Inaccurately referred to as compulsive gambling, it is problem gambling to the extent of a mental disorder, especially a psychiatric disorder, causing harm to the gambler and other people.
California has 296,500 to 490,000 adults classified as lifetime pathological gamblers, unveiled the OPG gambling study. There are 450,000 to 713,400 others with a considerable gambling problem although not enough to meet established criteria for pathological gambling.
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