Canadian Roulette ...180 to 360 canadians each yr.. take there life due to gambling

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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=content width="5%"></TD><TD class=bold-content width="20%"></TD><TD class=content width="75%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=content></TD><TD class=bold-content>Source:</TD><TD class=content>Canada Safety Council</TD></TR><TR><TD class=content></TD><TD class=bold-content>Published Date:</TD><TD class=content>Dec 13, 2004</TD></TR><TR><TD class=content colSpan=3>
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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=content></TD><TD class=bold-content vAlign=top width=532 colSpan=2></TD></TR><TR><TD class=content></TD><TD class=content vAlign=top width=532 colSpan=2>No one knows exactly how many compulsive gamblers end up taking their own lives in Canada. The Canada Safety Council believes the number is likely somewhere between 180 and 360 a year. For every suicide, five gamblers with self-inflicted injuries could end up in hospital. Gambling addiction is also linked to a range of other serious personal and social harms such as bankruptcy, family breakup, domestic abuse, assault, fraud, theft and even homelessness. The Canada Safety Council believes strategies are urgently needed to reduce deaths, injuries and other harms resulting from the expansion of gambling. As with other safety issues, there will be no magic bullet. Solutions will involve a combination of measures, including public education, preventive use of technology, counseling and treatment programs, well-enforced regulations - and above all, a strong social commitment to prevent gambling addiction. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
 

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Ok, that is sad news no question about it.

BUT, HERE IS THE STATISTIC ONE WILL NEVER SEE.

HOW MANY WOULD HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE LONG BEFOREHAND IF GAMBLING WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO THEM????

Answer: THOUSANDS more!

Gambling gives hope to many, and thus saves many lives!!

Perhaps are own resident SHRINK can comment on this, being the licensed doctor he is.
 

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they are talking about the compulsive gamblers that cant stop Fishy not the "general gambler" that can stop or the hobby gambler that stops also when they want to...
 

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When I did practice Psychiatry many moons ago, Compulsive Gambling often was a symptom of something much more severe...MAJOR DEPRESSION.....

That is why the SUICIDE rate is higher with these folks...

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OK, still.

Would venture to say more COMPULSIVE gamblers save their lives by gambling than by those that go over the deep end and commit suicide.

It is a very sad topic either way, especially for me personally when i have had more than just a couple friends of mine committ suicide as a direct result of gambling.

So certianly do not want to diminish the fact that gambling is very much the direct result of many very sad stories.

Anyway, through discussing this on this sunny day........................just in closing, i think gambling gets a very bad rap at times and the other side of the coin is never looked at.
 

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Not to mention the lives that are CREATED by an exhilarating game and the events which naturally follow :hump:
 

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Remember the MIAMI game a few weeks ago, the one where 4 touchdowns were scored in the last 4 minutes????

Well there was a guy who jumped off a bridge somewhere with a 250K ticket in his pocket on the OVER....

Thing is he jumped with 2 minutes left when it was looking like a SURE UNDER.....

Should have waited till the fat lady sung........
 

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