2021 | Week of March 1 | Radio Transcript #1401
A 1996 survey revealed that less than 1% of Wisconsin citizens, or about 32,425 residents were problem gamblers and that the annual social costs related to those problem gamblers was over $300 million, or $9,469 per problem gambler in general and over $10,000 per casino problem gambler. Those numbers clearly should have told us something. But they didn’t.
And now, in 2021, Wisconsin has approximately 7% of its adult population, or about 333,000 people, identified as problem gamblers, which means, even using the same 1996 per-gambler cost, Wisconsin society now pays well over $3 billion annually in social costs related to the dysfunctional consequences of problem gambling. Once again, those numbers should clearly tell us something.
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