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Thank you for visiting my Website. One of the key themes you will see here concerns a personal passion that I would like to share with you.

Since 1999, I have been concerned with the human effects of the upsurge of the gambling industry in the USA and over the entire developed world. I am especially interested in implementing a way to reduce or eliminate the serious human suffering and degraded quality of life for those who progessively become "problem gamblers."

Worldwide, there are approximately 2.2 billion people who choose to gamble. Of that number, a conservative estimate would be that there are at least 150 million people who incur significant suffering due to their own gambling problems. Some studies have shown that each problem gambler (a.k.a. "disordered gambler") negatively affects the lives of 7-10 other people, that is, family, co-workers, and others. It would therefore be reasonable to estimate that the lives of much more than a billion people worldwide (one of every seven) are adversely affected by problem gambling.

Besides just being "broke" quite often, this suffering manifests itself in bad debts/bankruptcies, blue and white-collar crime, fraud, suicides, family break-ups/divorce, domestic violence, child neglect, incarceration, government sponsored treatment and recovery, lost productivity, unemployment, and homelessness.

I can think of nothing else that I have the capability to do, or contribute to, that would have a greater positive impact than to achieve some degree of success in reducing the terrible toll that is taken on human beings through inappropriate gambling.

Several years of working toward my objective has removed any illusions I may have had early on about the chances for success. There are powerful forces that oppose the implementation of solutions. Unfortunately, many state governments are partially financed by gambling revenues and legislatures have become "addicted" to those revenues. The collective gambling industry is one of the most powerful entities one could possibly attempt to sway, especially considering that their revenue levels are directly dependent upon the financial losses of their patrons. I certainly do not paint the entire industry with the same brush. There are some remarkable visionaries within the ranks of the gambling industry. However, I have found they are a small minority. On a scale of 1 to 10, the typical gambling venue manager's concern for next quarter's revenue and net income is a 10 and their sincere concern for the welfare of their patrons is a much smaller number.

I hope you will spend some of your valuable time getting acquainted with the details of this issue and my proposal to help the sitiuation by exploring more of this Web site and taking advantage of the information that is offered.