Gemini Study Beginning for Gambling Addiction

In 2002, Gemini Research Ltd. did a study on gambling addiction, and how often people gamble. They found that 19% of the adult Nevada population had gambled at least one a week, with 6.4% of the population having a serious gambling problem.

This study is the reason why the University of Las Vegas has teamed up with Harvard Medical School’s Division on Addictions to assess where the rural areas of Las Vegas are now, four years later. They are looking for almost 200 participants, and are willing to pay them $100 each to be interviewed over the phone three times, over the course of three months.

They are hoping that they will be able to find out more about problem slot machine or table gambling in rural areas, where assistance is not readily available. Larger areas such as Las Vegas and Reno have a lot of treatment programs that are available for those with a problem. The outer lying areas of Nevada do not have that sort of help.

One of the things they would study is how that affects the gambling addiction as well. If there are more places to get help as opposed to little or none, how much does that affect the addiction?

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