Her statement, for that is what it was, was made solemnly with a depth of meaning and feeling by a woman with a long-term history of cross addiction, beginning with alcohol, moving on through crack cocaine, moving onto addiction to slot machine playing. To this woman-as to many men and women-by-far the hardest addiction to overcome is that of gambling addiction. For the woman I speak of her pattern of addiction lasting over twenty-five years becoming ultimately so destructive it resulted in five of her eleven children being taken into care.
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