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Casinos profit from addicts, but aren't always villains

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh : PA : USA | 3 months ago

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Two years before the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem opened in May, it was shelling out money for training. The intriguing aspect is it wasn't training its own employees. It paid for the Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania to educate hundreds of counselors and therapists in Eastern Pennsylvania...

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James is a recovering heroin user and alcoholic trying to free himself from an addiction to slot machines. He's driven to the machines to escape other problems, with the spin of the reels subbing for the substances in which he used to lose himself.