Recent research reveals that approxiamtely 2.5 million adults in the United States are pathological gamblers and another 3 million adults should be considered problem gamblers.  Well over 500 billion dollars is spent on gambling each year in the United States.  That is a massive amount of money. 

Gambling has become big business in the United States, and the gambling industry is creating a massive number of gambling addicts as the following statistics show:

*The gambling industry has grown tenfold in the United States since 1975.

*Two-thirds of the adult population placed some kind of bet last year.

*Gambling profits in casinos are more than 30 billion dollars each year while lotteries make profits of about 17 billion dollars annually.

*In 1973 state lotteries had about 2 billion dollars in sales.  By 1997, the revenues of state lotteries reached 34 billion (Read More....)