C4-Sunday News, January 27, 1980 | -

GRADUATE STU.
DENT IN art at the
University of California
here Glen Moriwaki
stands amid 3,000
opened brown paper
grocery bags. Titled
‘‘wheat field,”’
Moriwaki says this is
“installation art,” the
conversion of everyday
objects into art by
using a great number of

Gambling a health problem

PIKESVILLE, Md. (UPI)
- The lawyer nervously
watched the clock during his
disbarment hearing. Beads
of sweat slid down his face.
Legal debate dragged on - as
post time at Pimlico Race
Course drew near.

Edward Morgan (not his
real name) had admitted
embezzling $4,000 from a
high school parents’ group
while he was its treasurer.
He needed the money to
support his gambling habit.
What more did they need for
a verdict?

“You might say my future
was being weighed, and all |
could think of was, ‘I wish
this would pet over. I'm
going to miss the first race’.”
said Morgan.

His disbarment didn't
keep him from the betting
windows at Pimlico, the
home of the Preakness.
Neither did the forced sale of
his suburban Baltimore
home.

“The compulsive gambler
begs. borrows and “steals
What he'll do (o get money ts
beyond the hmit.” said Dr
Robert Politzer, director of
the state-funded compulsive

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compulsive gambler does
not choose to stop gambling,

he stops when he’s forced
to.”

Politzer and his _ staff
opened the Maryland
Compulsive Gambling

Counseling Center in
November 1979 to offer
treatment to the estimated
1.1 million men and women
in the U.S. who are addicted
to betting on horses, sports
teams, card games and just
about everything else.

Robert Custer, a
psychiatrist with the
Veterans Administration in
Washington, said com-
pulsive gambling is a mental!
behavioral disorder in which
a person develops an
emotional dependence on
gambling to the point where
it interferes with al! normal
functions

“It's the high from placing
the bet, from the action. The
winning becomes secondary
We have people who bet $50
to S$LS5O0 a day on the state
lottery where the odds are

1,000 to 1 to win,” said
center counselor Joanna
Franklin

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Through a program of
peer counseling,
professional therapy and
communication workshops,
Ms. Franklin said gamblers
begin the essential, painful
task of finding other ways to
occupy their time. Lifestyle
contracts are drawn up with
short and long-range goals.
Gamblers are expected to
meet them.

Politzer said the tragedy of
compulsive gambling is the
ripple effect - the gambler’s
habit touches his family,
employers and even the
insurance company that
must make good on em-
bezzled money used to
wager. At least seven people
nationwide are effected by
each gambler’s habit, he
said.

“Compulsive gambling ts a
public health problem.”
Pohtzer told a crowd when
the center opened “Its
society's responsibility, since
we gain ao tremendous
amount of revenue from
legahzed gambling. to care
for its addicts.”

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Moran hasn't been to the
track since his treatment ata
Brecksville, Ohio, VA
hospital in early 1978. But he

expects to be a “hfetime
member” of Gambling
Anonymous.

Today the 25-year state
employee attends at least
two Gambling Anonymous
meetings a week. He also
participates in a_ weekly
therapy group at Politzer’s
center and chats with other
compulsive gamblers like
Joe Delaney (also a fictitious
name).

Delany 1s a new arrival, a
construction firm owner who
has bet as much as $25,000
on a football game. Delany's
auuorney pressured him to
seek professional help
because he 1s. several
hundred thousand dollars in
debt

“T came because | wanted
to quit and J couldn't do it
myself.” he said

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