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Increase in Online Gambling Leads to More Addictions

``Durbin is regional administrator for the state's Office of Addictive Disorders with the Department of Health and Hospitals.

``Durbin said counselors can help gambling addicts learn to avoid gambling places, but "that's the problem with the Internet - it's hard to treat because it's so easy to access now."

``Egan Jones, a licensed clinical social worker, said, "We're finding it's a bigger problem every year. Last year, the FTC sent out a warning about kids gambling on the Internet."

``…While Shreveport has the first state-funded treatment facility for gambling addicts, Cenla's has since opened its first intensive outpatient treatment facility for gambling addicts, the Avoyelles Gambling Recovery Center in Bunkie.

```We do want to make sure people understand there's help available,' Durbin said.

```It's confidential, doesn't cost anything to come,' he said, because the state gets funding from the gaming commission to use to pay for treatment…"

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