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MILWAUKEE -- Calls to a Wisconsin organization that helps people addicted to gambling have continued to increase during the last year and a half, but not nearly at the rate they went up in 2002.

Although the nation's poor economy was cited as a reason for the big jump several years ago, Internet gambling is one possible reason for the latest boost, said Rose Gruber, executive director of the Green Bay-based Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling.

She said the group is worried Internet gambling would keep calls to its number increasing in the future.

The group received 8,322 calls last year, up 10 percent from 2002, Gruber said. It received 7,550 calls in 2002, a 45 percent increase from 2001. Through August, the council received 5,272 this year.

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