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Methodology
Matters", and "Gambling and Suicide: A Study of
44 Cases". These
two articles linked gambling to suicide. The
WAGERs concluded that
neither article had successfully established
that gambling had
caused the deaths in question. The difficulties
associated with
determining necessary and sufficient causes and
identifying partial
causes has plagued this area of investigation.
In addition, the
comorbidity often evident among pathological
gamblers has
contributed to these assessments of causality.
The press, as well as anti-gambling forces, have
strived to connect
gambling to deaths. For example, the following
"Casino Deaths"
were found at the CitizenLink website. As you
review these
accounts, note that additional causes (e.g.,
drinking, anger,
criminality, aging) loom as possible alternative
explanations of
death, or at least partial causes of death.
"After a night of drinking at a Kenner (La.)
casino Saturday night, a
Ponchatoula man apparently shot himself to death
in his car outside
the gambling boat, police said." ([New Orleans]
Times-Picayune,
11/8/99)
"One man was shot to death and another
critically injured following
an argument outside the Mohegan Sun casino
(Montville, Conn.),
police said." (Las Vegas Sun, 11/8/99)
"A man shot his ex-girlfriend Wednesday morning
as she dealt
blackjack at a downtown (Las Vegas) casino, then
chased her
through the casino, firing shots until she
collapsed, police said."
(Associated Press, 11/10/99)
"Police are probing the death of the son of cult
founder the Rev.
Sun Myung Moon. Young Jin Moon, 21, fell to his
death from a
17th-floor hotel window. His body was found on
the roof of a
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