Thursday, January 17, 2008

article on gambling

Patrick Wall is quoted a lot in this article on gambling in Wednesday's examiner

its a pity for lots of reasons that we really no very little about the extent of gambling in Ireland.

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2008/01/16/story52652.asp

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dr Wall has put it in the starkest terms: “People need to understand gambling is often behind unexplained suicide among men in their 40s with no history of mental illness... suicide often seems the only way out because of the shame and the massive debts they’ve accumulated.”

this is not really true, reading several scientific studies from USA proves thar suicide is rarely connected with gambling.

in terms of internet gambling, this really is becoming wide problem in terms of control, preventon and protection.