When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers