在北岸社区学院的一个座谈会上，博彩官员、公共健康专家和拯救赌博沉迷者的拥护者提出了多方面的方法来防止和治疗问题博彩，列举了种种可行的措施，包括限制一个人在一个赌场可以滞留多长的时间，并且试图灌输给处于危险中的人们。
“这里有一些工具适合你”周一，在北岸社区学院的一个座谈会上，致力于研究国际性博彩和博彩问题的马萨诸塞大学研究员瑞切尔。佛伯格对马萨诸塞州博彩委员会成员如是说。
这个座谈会是安排在全州进行的若干场博彩委员会委员们教育界公开会议中的第四场，用委员恩里克。苏尼加在开场白中的话说会议主题是关于州赌场博彩合法化“潜在的负面影响”。
委员会正在着手制定批准赌场经营的法律中关于如何处理这些问题的部分，凯瑟琳。思凯伦在发言中说， 她是此事的主持者和马萨诸塞州强迫性赌博委员会的高级顾问。
周一的座谈集中讨论“问题赌博”
强迫性赌博委员会的执行理事马林。华纳说，大约有2-3%的人会出现“问题”或是“病态”赌博乃至失常性的赌博，这必定会对人的生活造成消极影响。
斯科特。瑟雷就是这样一个人，他告诉委员们他在2004年为了消愁开始去赌场赌博，在2006年3月份到2007年期间，他在赌场赌博用掉150万美元，输的比赢的多得多，赢的估计也就是36000美元。
尽管他自己也意识到这是上瘾了，“没有人阻止我”他说，反而他成为了赌场里挥金如土的狂赌者，他去赌场能获得免费的房间、演出票和更多的优惠。
因为强迫性赌博，乔迪。奈尔雷输掉了估计50万美元和她的家庭、事业，她谈到因为盗窃她的老板被判处监禁两年。
“赌博能让我感觉很爽，而钱就像是要爽就必须吃的药物”
与会者列举了不同的国家和州解决问题赌博而采取的不同方法，佛伯格指出在荷兰赌场识别和评估问题赌博的依据是任何人在一个时期内赌博超过一定的时间量，奈尔雷则表示她曾经因为在两个小时内输掉500美元而被一家赌场拒绝。
剑桥健康联沉溺调查和学术研究部门的主任德比。拉普兰特说，研究表明，世俗认为的增加赌博的机会就会导致问题赌博增多的观点未必是准确的。
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Gambling board hears other side of gaming
Citing possible tactics including limits on how much a person can lose during a certain period of time at a casino and trying to “inoculate” at-risk populations, gaming officials, public-health experts and recovering gambling addicts advocated a multi-faceted approach to preventing and treating gambling problems.
“There are a variety of tools available to you,” Rachel Volberg, a UMass researcher, who has studied gambling and gambling problems internationally, told members of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission （MGC） at a forum held at North Shore Community College Monday.
The forum was the fourth of several educational public meetings scheduled statewide where commissioners hear testimony addressing “potentially negative effects” of the state’s legalization of casino gambling, Commissioner Enrique Zuniga said in opening remarks.
The commission is developing provisions on how to address these issues as part of the legislation authorizing casinos, Kathleen Scanlan, the moderator of the event and a senior advisor at the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling, said in opening remarks.
The forum Monday focused on “problem gambling.”
Marlene Warner, the executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling, said approximately 2 to 3 percent of the population have experienced “problem” or “pathological” gambling or gambling disorders that negatively impact a person’s life.
Scott Seely was one of these people. He told commissioners he started going to casinos to escape depression in 2004. Between March of 2006 and 2007, he had played $1.5 million at casinos winning some, losing more while earning an estimated $36,000.
Although he recognized it as an addictive behavior, he said Monday “nobody stopped me.” Instead he became a “high roller” at the casino, getting free rooms when he’d visit, tickets to shows and more.
Jodie Nealley estimated she lost $500,000, her home and her career due to compulsive gambling. She talked about how she received a two-year jail sentence after stealing from her employer.
“Gambling was how I got high and money was the drug.”
Panelists cited many different methods used by different states and countries to address gambling problems. Volberg noted that casinos in the Netherlands identify and evaluate any person who gambles a certain number of times over a certain time period. Nealley said a casino shut her off after she lost more than $500 in two hours.
Debi LaPlante, the director of research and academic affairs at the Division on Addiction of the Cambridge Health Alliance, said research shows the conventional wisdom that increased opportunities for gambling leading to increased gambling problems is not necessarily accurate.