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Monkey Slots - Can Slot Machines Deter Addiction?

What makes gambling on slot machines so addictive? Are gambling addictions learned or are there genetic?

These are some of the many questions that are being addressed at a conference in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino for the National Center for Responsible Gaming. The executive director of that same center, Christine Reilly, addressed those in attendance about the importance of the role of medical science and psychology in the up and coming studies into the nature of a problem gambler.

 The uncontrollable impulse to bet beyond their means is a destructive habit, that is just now beginning to be address as a serious addiction that requires immediate intervention. "In the past, we haven't had good research, but that has changed,"  Christine Reilly said. "We hope this idea shapes the whole conference from this point on, what we find from our research will become the building blocks to establishing practices within the industry that are guided by science and are effective means to treating acute gambling addictions."

The center’s two-day conference specifically dealt with the power of personal choice within the confines of addiction, certain medicinal efforts being made in helping those cope with a gambling addiction, and also measures casinos, themselves, can make in order to deter compulsive gambling  like anti-addiction designed slot machines. And of course the difficulty in enforcing tactics such as excluding suspected compulsive gamblers.

The goal of the Center for Responsible Gaming, which has been largely supported and funded by the gaming and slot machine industries themselves, is to research with scientific means to pin-point what the possible negative effects of compulsive gambling are and then devise more effective ways the casino and slot machine industries can eliminate their causes, while also doing researches on what the most positive benefits of gambling with casinos and slot machines are, and then finding a way to maximize and make those benefits much more prevalent than the negative effects.