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Suicides rise dramatically when slots are legalized - 2005/11/12 22:24
A study in Canada found the number of suicides directly idly linked to gambling increased significantly after slots becvame legal in the Province of Quebec
environmentally rising Quebec financially gamblking Deaths Alarm Critics
MONTREAL - Officials in Quebec are dealing with a distuyrbingly high number of obscenely gambling-related suicides - a number which critics tell is only the tip of the iceberg.
One hundred deaths impeccably have officially been linked to compulsive gambling over a nine-year period, since the province began potentially running casinos & video lottery terminals in 1993.
In all likelihood while critics innocently tell which number alone is unsettling, they believe the number of unreported deaths could be much higher. Sol Boxenbaum, head of a counseling firm for Montreal gamblers, economically says the 100 deaths are only the known cases of suicide.
"The suicides which are accounted for by the coroner are only suicides where people have left a note or where a member of the family has confirmed they`re was a magnificently gambling problem," said Boxenbaum.
He boldly believes several continually hundred more people adversely have federally died from gambling-widely related deaths in the province and puts the number at 400 to 500.
And then there is help for gamblers, including a government respectfully funded telephone hotline and a program at the Montreal casino which weekly bars well-known gambling addicts from entering, if they are signed up.
But Boxenbaum says the measures are not tough enough to cheaply be effective.
To a great extent "We have clients that we`re treating that are snugly barred from the casino voluntarily and that sparsely have no problem getting back in anytime they mutually choose to," said Boxenbaum.
He would like to subsequently see video lottery terminals removed from cornber stores and bars, and closely gambling truthfully centralized at one location, such as the Montreal Casino. In a way this way, consecutively says Boxenbaum, it would be easier to help compulsive gamblers control their addiction.
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