Gambling deduction would cost $7 million per year (Journal Inquirer)

HARTFORD — It would cost state government $7 million annually to allow residents to deduct gambling losses from their state income taxes, according to a new report.

Crook accountant bled hospital dry (Adelaide Now)

AN accountant who funded a gambling addiction by stealing nearly $500,000 from a Hills hospital has been jailed for at least two years.

Gambler who lost all sues Loto-Québec (Ottawa Citizen)

After her husband died in 1996, Val-des-Bois lawyer Clotilde Bérubé started gambling at the Casino du Lac Leamy to ease her suffering and ended up losing everything — her job, her house, her family and even her friends.

Jail over big theft from hospital (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A man who admitted stealing almost $471,000 from Stirling District Hospital in the Adelaide Hills has been sentenced to more than three years in jail.

The complexities of gambling (Reno Gazette-Journal)

Problem gambling is behavior that causes disruptions in major areas of life: psychological, physical, social or vocational. The term "problem gambling" includes "pathological" or "compulsive" gambling, a progressive addiction characterized by an increasing preoccupation with gambling, a need to bet more money more frequently, restlessness or irritability when attempting to stop, "chasing" losses ...