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Gambling is biggest addiction in SA and catastrophic to children, researcher warns.(News)

Article from: Cape Times (South Africa) Article date: August 13, 2007

BYLINE: Helen Grange

JOHANNESBURG: Playing Lotto, slot machines or cards for money seem innocuous activities but, like drugs, these are the gateway to gambling addictions that are crippling thousands of young lives.

Worse, youngsters can turn to crime to support the habit.

University of the Witwatersrand professor of politics Philip Frankel, who led a survey into gambling among the youth in 2004 for the National Gambling Board, says compulsive gambling has spread throughout the country, and its victims are getting ...

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