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Gambling among teens in poker or sports betting. Teen gambling is a growing problem in the US, professional's in the addiction field say gambling addiction starts just like a drug or alcohol. Also the naltrexone blocks the reinforcing properties, patological gambling is a chronic relapsing disease. Seventy years ago in the US gambling was illegal, and it was cosidered immoral by our grandparents, but now you can gamble in all the states but Hawaii, Utah, and Tennessee and the states actually encourage their people to gamble. Gambling is one of the biggest businesses in America, it earns an estimated 50.9 billion dollars in net revenue annually. Gambling is a popular thing for people who make less than ten thousand dollars a year and they do it six times more often than people who make fifty thousand dollars a year. The discovery channel found out that when the powerball is high, that ninety percent of eligable adults will buy a ticket. There isn't any other commodity where the percent is so high. The approximate odds of winning are fourteen million to one. A study in vermont said that of the 21,297 students that 53% of them gambled within the last 12 months and 7% had a serious gambling problem. Pathological gambling is a persistent and recurrent maladaptive gambling behavior as indicated by 5 or more of the following. 1) The individual is always thinking of was in which to gamble and planning the next venture. 2) They need to gamble with increasing amounts of money to achieve the desired excitement. 3) The person is restless in trying to cut back or stop gambling. 4) They gamble to relieve stress or get away from problems. 5) After one plays for a day and loses the money they will go back and try to even there previous days loses.

They way that gambling addiction can be treated is just like any other addiction, with hours of group meetings and help others in the same area, also getting honest with themselves and having a spiritual journey with God. Also to get them to understand that there is a better answer to there financial problems then gambling. Professionals or you if you are helping someone through gambling recovery to not encourage them to go bankrupt. this often triggers more gambling since they think this gives them a clean My information that I got to write this report came from www.robertperkinson.com/teen_gambling.htm slate to start over.