by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer COLD SPRING – After spending nearly two years in prison, the former pastor of First Baptist Church in Cold Spring must find employment and will live in a halfway house until his release in April. Larry Davis, 60, was transferred...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
AC from Northeast Ohio “I was outside on a sunny day listening to an Indians baseball game on the radio. I was ten years old. Then it all came down on us.” This man (name withheld for privacy) can still remember the shock and confusion he felt as a 10-year-old boy...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: ABC Queensland, “Mick, Sarah, and Ian – The Stakes are High for Problem Gamblers.” Feb. 21,2008 It can start so innocently. So you had a little bet on the Melbourne Cup and lost, or you overspent a little on the pokies. You tell yourself,...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: CNN News, “Gambling Addiction as Real as Alcoholism.” June 18, 1999. Millions of people like to gamble, whether it be casino-style games or lotteries. For some gambling is an addiction, a sickness just like alcoholism or cancer, that can destroy...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: CBC News, “Suicide Prompts Loto-Quebec to Delay New Casino Announcement.” April 4th 2008. Mont-Tremblant casino shouldn’t go ahead at all: activist Loto-Québec cancelled plans to announce it was building a new casino Friday because the body...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: Business Week, Feb. 14,2008 A gambling addict is suing a British betting chain after he lost millions of dollars on bets, despite asking to have his account closed, his lawyers said Wednesday. Graham Calvert, a 28-year-old greyhound trainer, twice asked...
