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...nation to date has virtually ignored the problem of the compulsive gambler. The only federal funds allotted to treatment of the hopelessly addicted bettor are some $330,000 a year spent by the Veterans Administration. Dr. Robert Custer, who as chief of the VA's mental-services division has made a close study of the subject, points out that there is now no funding whatever for research into gambling addiction, as there is for alcoholism. He suggests that psychological research and treatment of the obsessive gambler could be financed by a small portion?say, .5%?of the revenue that...
...controls on gambling," says Dr. Custer. "We can minimize the casualties." He urges that: 1) the states should not permit around-the-clock gambling (as in Nevada), 2) nobody under 21 should be allowed to gamble ("Virtually all the compulsive gamblers I've treated began gambling as adolescents"), and 3) state betting operations should not promote gambling as they do today. One of the most "addictogenic" factors, in Custer's view, is the easy credit that is available through a bookie ? a strong argument for state-run gambling, in which credit is hard to get and tightly monitored...
...gamblers at G.A. meetings come from a variety of social and economic backgrounds. Says Dr. Robert L. Custer, a psychiatrist with the Veterans Administration in Washington and an expert on gambling, alcohol and drug abuse: "The compulsive gamblers don't follow any pattern. The only similarity is the addiction." Custer has termed compulsive gambling a "progressive behavior disorder," and points out that whereas the casual gambler goes to the track or casino with friends, the compulsive one usually goes alone...
...they come to Rapid City, S. Dak., gateway to one of the nation's most remarkable monuments?Mount Rushmore's great granite faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. A local menu offers buffalo burgers, which are indifferently appreciated until they see a herd of live buffalo in Custer State Park. Tour Guide Twain also takes his friends to Dead wood, the old cowboy town where Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane did things together that went unrecorded in children's schoolbooks. The main street is largely a series of tourist traps, but the three are intrigued...
...memoirs, the chief recalled his days acting in vaudeville and the movies, and touring with Buffalo Bill Cody's wild West show. He remembered catching fish with the hooked ribs of field mice and the braves' 1876 victory dance after they had wiped out General Custer. But it was his blow-by-blow account of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre that taxed his publisher, McGraw-Hill. Investigations showed that some 12,000 words of The Memoirs had been lifted more or less directly from a 1940 book about Wounded Knee. McGraw-Hill settled the plagiarism suit...