Were invited to the Director for Research ...

Were invited, research director of gambling activities at the University of Nevada and the staff of the NSC Addictions Ministry of Health of Russia. The essence of the meeting was to exchange experiences in the treatment of Gamblers, and informing the public about issues previously unknown to our country is rapidly spreading disease, which, as it turned out, moreover, is also contagious. Transmitted in communication, players often incline to gamble their surroundings. Is there a danger of the epidemic, which restless firmly in this year, it's hard to say because there is no data on morbidity, and they are unlikely to appear in the coming years. And after the above-mentioned law is likely to forget about it. If the stars are lit - it means that someone needs. A bit of humor: A wife, come on, get ready, I'm lost in poker! How's that? And do not say he was upset. I prize his nearly blew - in time to stop. ************************************************** ******************** Where did you manage to break his hand? Yes, yesterday looked into the casino, played with dice ... Well, that did not think to play the point ... ************************************************** ******************** husband comes home from work: Honey, I went to the races! You can not walk, I thy face mare already stuffed ... ************************************************** ******************** One peasant not much luck at the races, and once he knew what to do. Six years, he has not played over the years he amassed six thousand bucks. Shestogogo of six months, he got up promptly at 06.00 and called a taxi to 6666. Ipodrom came to the sixth fund, made all 6 thousand bucks on the sixth race, the sixth horse ... and the horse came sixth ... ************************************************** ******************** gambling and Criminality Computer analysis produced magazine Yu.S.nyus, "shows that in cities where there is a casino, a sharp increase crime, whereas the country in general crime in this period sakraschalas. In 1994, crime in cities increased by 5.8 percent, while a figure has decreased by 2 percent. In 31 settlements where new casinos are created a year ago, crime has jumped higher - at 7.7 percent. Representatives of the gambling industry say that with the advent of casino crime is often reduced and that its performance should take into account the influx of casino towns have visitors from outside. Resorting to the amendment to the kind of visitors - roughly, if a casino in Shreveport, Louisiana, visited the 5 million people were added to the population of 5 million - the supporters of gaming may represent the reduction of crime. But the FBI calls such calculations are self-serving. In a country whose citizens en masse are aware of the gambling business for the films "The Godfather" and "Casino", with one myth parted slowly: legalized gambling controlled by organized crime. True, thanks to the investments of corporations and regulating the activities of a casino strict rules now govern them more graduates of Harvard, rather than improvised mafia.