Gambling Addiction Treatment Uses Harm Reduction Theory
Attendees at the Pennsylvania Health Department’s first major gambling addiction conference were told that different approaches are needed to treat problem gamblers than drug and alcohol addicts. Rather than requiring abstinence, a “harm reduction” theory tries to encourage problem gamblers to spend less time and money on gambling. More than 150 people attended the conference Monday to Friday in …
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Interesting gambling information:
- Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
- The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
- The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.
- 1951: On September 4, Frank Sinatra makes his Vegas debut, performing in the Crystal Room at the Desert Inn.
1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino.
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