ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — All casinos must face the issue of compulsive gambling, which affects as many as 5 million Americans.
Yet they go about it in widely varying ways.
Some, like Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J., bring in former compulsive gamblers to train their employees on the signs of trouble. Others are more restrained, offering brochures or putting up signs on the casino floor with the phone number of a gamblers' help hotline.
Arnie Wexler, the former head of New Jersey's problem gambling council, urges dealers to let their supervisors know if appears a gambler has a problem. Aaron Gomes, vice president of Resorts, says he feels a moral obligation to make sure customers' fun doesn't become a problem.
Thirty-eight states offer casino gambling.
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