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Maryland gamblers could be hooked on slots

Published 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.

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“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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