The vice of gambling. Capable of overwhelming individual lives and families. A dark evil that slowly devours our community. Gambling addiction appears to be a real emergency in the urban area. An emergency extended, given the data, to the entire provincial context.
At the Serd of the ASP Bruzia, directed by Roberto Calabria, 120 patients are being treated. Men and women, of different ages (from 20 to 75 years old) ended up in the vortex of slot machines and betting. The vortex swallowed them, making them poor.
«Sometimes» says Calabria «they arrive alone, desperate; or on other occasions it is their relatives who accompany them because they are tired of an irredeemable situation. These are people left without a euro who have dragged their families into the abyss by wasting resources.”
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