I just read something that said 1.5 million people in the state of CA are addicted to gambling. There is a problem though because they said not many towns or counties are offering helping in that field of addiction. It also said that the population for gambling is 4%, but doubles when you live 50 mi from a casino. I think I already heard that statistic on this site, but that is amazing. I think this is a huge problem for our country. People can't get the right kind of help and although gambling addiction has been around for a while, it seems more recently people are finding how troubling it can be.

Does anyone know how many people live in CA?

It's about 35,000,000 :)

I have spent many hours in a casino. My husband used to be there all the time so when we got married he wanted me to tag along. I could monitor it better than he could. He would lose so much of our money. It was definitely hard on our marriage, but luckily we were able to work through it.

Where I live there are 2 casinos that are just 40 minutes away and another thats just an hour away and i know many people that stay out till 3 in the morning at the casinos every weekend, I think its a total waste of money and the sad part is they lose like 90% of the time!

I had a friend who has a casino about 10 minutes from her house. She was there everynight and for about a year she'd win so much! like she got hundreds of thousands of dollars all together from all the money she won. But then for about 2 months she started losing. Shes got some strong will because she gave up quick and even moved away to a house further awy from the casino. I admire her and how she had so much will and gave up her addiction so quick.