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...Henry Lesieur, a psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital and former NCRG advisory board member, agreed that the institute’s financial ties to the gambling industry might have an effect on the type of research being conducted...
...knowingly go after problem gamblers. But to answer the question there must be some agreed-upon definition of what constitutes a "problem" gambler, and here the industry and its critics are far apart. "Twenty percent of the customers account for 80% of the gambling industry's earnings," says Henry Lesieur, president of the Institute for Problem Gambling in Pawtucket, R.I. "We know that 5% to 6% of the total population are problem gamblers, and those 5% are spending 30% to 40% of the money." Critics charge that because the industry is so dependent on this small group, it appeals deliberately...
...studies indicate that teenage vulnerability to compulsive gambling hits every economic stratum and ethnic group. After surveying 2,700 high school students in four states, California psychologist Durand Jacobs concluded that students are 2 1/2 times as likely as adults to become problem gamblers. In another study, Henry Lesieur, a sociologist at St. John's University in New York, found eight times as many gambling addicts among college students as among adults...
...money they bet. Dr. Howard Shaffer of Harvard's Center for Addiction Studies figures that the proportion of American adults who bet at least occasionally has risen from 60% two decades ago to 80% now; other estimates range up to 88%. Nor is betting confined to adults: Henry Lesieur, a sociologist at St. John's University in New York City, found in a 1987 study that 86% of New Jersey high school students had gambled within the previous year and 32% gambled at least once a week, mostly on sports events. "At first I didn't believe the rates," says...
...yard breastroke: Won by P. Walker (H); second, M. Kraus (H); third, Lesieur (B). Time...