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...that money is coming from someone's pockets, and it's not the winners'. According to Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, as many as 10 million U.S. adults meet the "problem gambling" criteria. Kids are hit even harder. Exact figures aren't easy to come by, but various studies place the rate of problem gambling among underage players somewhere between two and three times the rate for adults...
...health officials want to know is whether the damage can be curbed. What separates addictive gamblers from occasional ones? Is it personality, brain chemistry, environment? Can a behavior be a true addiction without a chemical driving it? "People have seen gambling in moral terms for a thousand years," says Whyte. "It's only recently that we've begun seeing it as a disease...
...difficulties in understanding drug or alcohol abuse is that the minute you add a chemical to the body, you muddy the mental processes. "It's hard to tease the connection out because you don't know how much is the drug and how much is the behavior," says Whyte. "But gambling is a pure addiction...
...There was a very different atmosphere then: progressive change, feminism, equal rights, civil rights,” Whyte says. “All of these kinds of things were in the air, and there was a feeling that our society was changing...
...students’ side when it came to making change. Lowering the legal age of adulthood from 21 to 18 hampered colleges’ attempts to regulate students’ social lives, says Whyte. “Trying to enforce rules on the behavior of students who are adults—except for some 17-year-old freshmen—became untenable for colleges...