Problem Gambling and Treatment in Nevada

Authors

Bo Bernhard, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Sarah St. John, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2012

Publication Title

The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State

Publisher

UNLV: Center for Democratic Culture Publications

First page number:

1

Last page number:

17

Abstract

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 for the gambler know that he is counted a traitor to his duty, a murderer of all that is fair, and precious, and beloved among us” (Hopkins, 1835:17-18).

Keywords

Compulsive gambling--Research; Compulsive gambling--Treatment; Gambling--Taxation--U.S. states; Gambling--Psychology

Disciplines

Community-Based Research | Immune System Diseases | Psychology | Sociology | Virus Diseases

Language

English

Repository Citation

Bernhard, B., St. John, S. (2012). Problem Gambling and Treatment in Nevada. In Dmitri N. Shalin, The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State 1-17.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/social_health_nevada_reports/49