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High Stakes: The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction

High Stakes: The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction

Skolnik, Sam

Paperback

Addiction & RecoveryGeneral GamblingGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0807006378
ISBN13: 9780807006375
Publisher: Beacon Pr
Published: Jun 16 2015
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What the explosive growth of legalized gambling means socially, politically, and economically for America.

Forty years ago, casinos were legal in just one state. Today, legalized gambling has morphed into a $119 billion industry established in all but two states. As elected officials are urging voters to expand gambling's reach, the industry's supporters and their impassioned detractors are squaring off in prolonged state-by-state battles. Millions of Americans are being asked to decide: are the benefits worth the costs?

With a blend of investigative journalism and poignant narratives of gambling addiction, award-winning journalist Sam Skolnik provides an in-depth exploration of the consequences of this national phenomenon. In High Stakes, we meet politicians eager to promote legalized gambling as an economic cure-all, scientists wrestling with the meaning of gambling addiction, and players so caught up in the chase that they've lost their livelihoods and their minds.

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