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Maryland gamblers could be hooked on slotsPublished 10/14/07
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. Schull...
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