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Sometimes to win, have to stop playing. Join

By Fernando Landaburu

Gone are the times where to go to the casino had to do 400 km on Route 2 to Mar del Plata, or the option was to go to the city of Colonia in Uruguay. Today virtually began as local simple bingos, casinos are having roulette, blackjack, craps, slots and the inevitable, often working 24 hours. day and ATMs nearby. So that the supply of gambling money multiplied considerably and thus begins a debate over whether to put appropriate limits on such businesses, which is generating effects on the health of the population and local economies by important flow of money to be; seriously affecting the trade and economic life of many cities.
An alarming fact regarding the health issue is that the number of people who have requested assistance to the Gamblers Assistance Program, which operates under the orbit of the Provincial Institute of Lottery and Casinos has grown 150% in the last three years and it is estimated that between 1% and 2.5% of the population is in the most severe stage disease.
What is gambling? According to Ms. Susana Calero in an article in the Journal of Clinical Neuropsychiatry Argentina, "pathological gambling or pathological gambling is considered by the WHO (World Health Org..) As an addiction in mental illness. The picture is progressive, requires prior psychological characteristics and external characteristics that promote development. When referring to a gambling addiction, it is thought that the subject maintains a common bond, repeated, overwhelming and urgent with the game. The game becomes the main focus of his life. "Marti J. Farré
in the Dictionary of Psychology defines addiction as "the overriding trend of the person who loses his ability to rule in relation to drug use, use of objects (computers, television, etc..), repetition of activities (game compulsive shopping, etc.), to the point of harming yourself or society, "several authors speak of psychological dependence, allowing us to define problem gambling. To be a compulsive gambler
require certain psychological factors, internal or personal and external, within the first find: conflicts of adolescence, anxiety, anguish, loneliness, grief unprocessed break of a couple, depressive, obsessive compulsive and bipolar pictures within the external occupies an important place society (included as a factor in the family), the game companies and the state. The family increasingly neglected, and therefore less able to set limits, on the other hand, companies that invest to win and bring some of their profits to the state and the latter should set limits on advertising and schedules, controls play areas, etc.
gambling expert Brisuela July states that " disease takes years to develop, in women from 4 to 6 years and in men from 6 to 10 years, and is developed in four phases, the first is to gain, in which the subject feels winner and only referred to successful events, which is not the whole truth, in that period the person is optimistic, the second stage of the recovery of losses in the beginning to go to the casino not to have fun or have fun, but to recover loss. This whole time thinking about the game, then comes the critical stage which is the third in which there is an intense concern for the game, in which there are the guarantors, lenders, criminal acts. Here is indebted to friends, sell personal property or family. And finally the stage of crisis, when seeking help, sometimes by himself, others through a family member or referred by the justice when committed any wrongful act or when there is a valid outlet for the debt you can get to suicide. "
Other effects of pathological gambling: the continued stress of hiding a gambling addiction produces a series of physical disturbances (gastrointestinal disorders, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, etc..), isolation from family, colleagues and friends, loss of interest in other activities conducted regularly and the incidence rates of alcoholism and other addictions among pathological gamblers are above average.
It is no coincidence that the only public place you can smoke in the Province of Buenos Aires is in the Bingos. The role of the state

Rousseau said in the "Social Contract" in 1782: "The citizen has the right to play, but the state has an obligation to protect it." Thus, compared to the growth of casinos under the governments and laws, has started to produce various projects including the project by Rep. Jaime Linares Prov Block (GEN) in the Chamber of Deputies Province of Buenos Aires, for municipalities to regulate hours and conditions of hygiene and health of the bingos. Also, the councilors Block UCR Necochea presented a draft ordinance limiting hours of operation of bingo, a project that has already been approved, which, besides the public health issue posed by the damage they generate increasing funds Bingo withdraws from the economic circuit, local (2004: $ 5,075 .800 .-, 2005: $ 7,974,719 .-, 2006: $ 11,089,250 .-, 2007: $ 15,299,256 .-, 2008: 20,373,028 .-, 2009: $ 23,157,617) . Estimating that in 2010 exceed $ 30,000,000., A situation that is being proposed and in all towns in the interior of the Province of Buenos Aires and the rest of the country.
the State should also regulate the possibility to attend the game rooms with an amount of money the company gives that concurs with publicity (making the first pass agree that drug dealers give free a teenager), or the same government advertising, which relates the solidarity game, this being a huge contradiction.
also noticed the influence of social values \u200b\u200bassociated with the consumption of happiness, and so the game of chance for money seems to provide a better opportunity than others for material gain, a situation that contrasts with the culture of work and effort that we consider to be recovered in our society.
And it is less the issue that most affected by this situation is to lower income sectors, since many times the player spends the money it has to meet the minimum needs of the family that integrates, thereby worsening the economic and social situation.
This note is not intended to cover all the problems, but contribute to a debate that is necessary in our country and our city of Avellaneda, and we do not consider there to finish the game, but if you set limits on a business generating huge economic gains to small groups.