As Gambling Addiction Rates Rise, Keep An Eye On Grandma This Super Bowl | Edith Langford

Seniors with gambling addictions are often boomers who have attained the American dream and then lost
I have been a psychotherapist for 40 years and I still remember the first time, back in 1984, that I led an in-patient addiction therapy group. Joe, a retired marketing executive in his 60s and a compulsive gambler, abruptly exited the room and disappeared into the dark snowy Long Island evening in his pajamas and slippers.
Devastated, I thought I had done something wrong. “No,” my clinical supervisor explained, “it’s just post time at the Belmont racetrack.”
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