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it exploits the poorest numbers of our society. you go until the last dollar is gone. 20% of states do not provide a single penny public wanting to prevent or treat gambling addiction. states that duke spent less than $0.25 per gambler per year. this to be the same thing as being a state choosing not to fund drug abuse programs. if you show some on the mri of a problem gambler, the brain of a problem gambler looks indistinguishable from a brain of a cocaine addict. they have those same regions that are deadened and those other regions that are highly activated. the first thing we need to do is we need to get the government out of the business of sponsoring gambling. governments try to sell us on the idea that the answer to budget crises is to pass a lottery. until then, health advocates argue that any entity that regulates and profits from gambling should use a portion of that revenue to help prevent and treat gambling addiction. bret? bret: thanks.
and of those recommendations, only one is for the federal government to prohibit any kind of gambling. and that was to prohibit internet gambling. the reason is, our research showed that it s essentially predatory form of gambling. and by predatory i mean this, if you put a virtual casino in every home, in every room of every home potentially and every dorm, every office of every building, then two populations at least are very vulnerable to that, the young and those who have a natural vulnerability to pathological gambling or gambling addiction. those populations are going to lose a lot of money. okay. and i guess the thinking is that people who already lost their home and jobs maybe if we can at least tax them as they lose what s left, that benefits the government. so, john, react to that. what tim says he found in that study. what do you think? what do you say to that? the reality is the current law protects not a single child, not a single problem gambler. and what legislat