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Woman's Video Gaming Addiction Leads to Prison12 March 2002MONTANA – As reported by the (Montana) Billings-Gazzette: "Sheila Holbrook can tell you what it's like to be hooked on gambling machines, but she can't really tell you why. "It's about a relationship I have with a machine," she said. "I have this Pavlovian response to this stupid machine. I'd like to think I'm smarter than that, but that's not the way it works." At the height of her gambling compulsion, Sheila was living in Missoula, spending up to 14 hours a day in front of a Powerball Keno machine, smoking and drinking and pushing buttons until the world outside the casino seemed to disappear. To read the rest of the article, please click here. |