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Psychology

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Social Health of Nevada Reports

2012

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Problem Gambling And Treatment In Nevada, Bo Bernhard, Sarah St. John Jan 2012

Problem Gambling And Treatment In Nevada, Bo Bernhard, Sarah St. John

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For many years, it was moral experts, rather than medical and academic ones, who told us who gambled “too much.” Speaking from pulpits rather than podiums, church leaders informed us that gambling was uniquely subversive of the American way of life, for its something-for-nothing promise threatened to undermine the popular ethic of honest toil and gradual accumulation of goods. Samuel Hopkins, in an 1835 sermon on “The Evils of Gambling,” captured this sensibility: “Let the gambler know that he is watched, and marked; and that . . . he is loathed. Let the man who dares to furnish a resort …