Before Casinos Open, Providing Help for Addicts

  |  November 19, 2013
Photo by Sincerelyhiten/used via Creative Commons license

Photo by Sincerelyhiten/used via Creative Commons license

New Yorkers just passed a law allowing the creation of up to seven casinos in upstate New York. Just two weeks later, Gov. Cuomo announced that better signs about the dangers of gambling addiction, and where to get help for it, be posted in or near the establishments.  “The state Council on Problem Gambling reported that the line received only 1,449 calls in 2011 although about 1 million New Yorkers have been identified with a gambling problem,” reports NBC NY.

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