collecting. Something that as a result more than 5 million Americans have become

pathalogical gamblers, half of which are young people ages 12-17. When you think of

compulsive gambling you would tend to think it would be more of an adult problem, but it

isn't. Due to technological advances this problem is becoming a traumatizing teen

So today we're going to hit this problem hard, anaylize the problem as a whole,

getting to the root of the problem by discussing the causes, and then we'll look at some

ways we can solve and hopefully prevent this epidemic from growing.

According to the Feb. 28, 2001 JAMA, about 10-15% of yound people surveyed

in the United States and Canada report having experienced one or more significant

problems related to gambling, and about 1-6% of those surveyed could possibly have

satisfied the diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling. To make it a little more clearer,

about 2 out of every three teenagers gamble and about 1.1 million US teens alone are

Gambling is so tempting for teens. The main reason teens get hooked on gambl

everywhere are gaining access to gambling. How many times do you remember your

1998 issue of the Daily Illini., about 47 percent of people who gamble come from

remembers her grandfather having to declare bankruptcy once before, but still gambling

Scholastic Choices in 1999 and goes something like this: Lisa could not wait until she

invitingly. Just from the sounds she felt like a winner. Within a year she had gambled away

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