According to the FBI, approximately 300 Internet Web sites currently offer gambling. Gambling gets a grip on you like a piece of metal to a powerful magnet. For the student, having no resources to gamble and realizing that he was deteriorating emotionally broke the cycle. It's the solution to their problem. That's how they escape the problem.
Addiction is a form of problem-solving for the individual.
Saving his credit rating To gain back control of his life as a casualty of gambling, the student had to save his credit rating. He talked to financial officers at NationsBank, confused about the overdraft transactions. They told him that his excellent credit rating probably contributed to the charges being covered by the bank. But in the cold light of day, he started to associate gambling with death. Youth at risk Dr. Howard Schaeffer of the Harvard Center for Addictive Studies predicts within 10 years youth gambling will be more of a problem to society than drug use.