“Maryland gamblers could be hooked on slots” (article url)
By MICHAEL WALSH,
Capital Gazette
Published October 14, 2007
WASHINGTON - Slot machines, like the ones Gov. Martin O’Malley wants to
bring to Maryland, are “rigged” and designed to create addiction, said the
National Coalition Against Gambling Expansion on Friday. “The aim of these
technologies is to get people to play longer, faster and
more intensely,” said Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor
Natasha Schull.
Schull spoke at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington,
introducing her research showing electronic gambling machines to be
habit-forming as part of a wider effort by the coalition to arrest the tide
toward gambling expansion.
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