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Treatment providers and Minnesotans in recovery describe family, mental‑health and financial harms from problem gambling
Summary
State treatment providers and several people in recovery described long-term family trauma, co-occurring mental-health conditions and financial devastation associated with compulsive gambling, and urged expanded treatment and prevention funding.
Treatment providers and people in recovery described to the Senate Finance Committee how gambling disorder affected families, finances and mental health, and urged expanded prevention and treatment resources.
Susan Sheridan Tucker, executive director of the Minnesota Alliance on Problem Gambling, said the organization maintains a neutral position on legalization but urged that any law include comprehensive consumer protections and increased funding for problem‑gambling services. "We fully advocate and support comprehensive consumer protections for all those who choose to gamble," Sheridan Tucker said, and she acknowledged her…
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