They'd rather be in a corner. That's why they like the machines so much. They just want to hide. But given her background as a adrenaline-charged journalist, Morgan didn't fit the normal pattern. Hunter believes that pathological gambling is fueled by a change in brain chemistry.
New research seems to back that belief up.
As a result, he treats gambling addicts much as other centers treat drug addicts and alcoholics. My patients gamble the way junkies shoot dope. Cocaine, prescription pain pills, alcohol, gambling - all flip exactly the same switch in the brain. At the clinic, Morgan felt like an addict. Shakes, fever, diarrhea.