Gambling Millions of Neglected Addicts
Bryant Northern had the world at his fingertips three years ago as a walk-on guard who won a full scholarship at basketball powerhouse University of Louisville. But the 6-foot-tall Northern also had a hidden problem: an addiction to gambling. Caesars Indiana, the riverboat casino across the Ohio from Louisville, had been his happy hangout since high school ?and his scourge. A run of lousy luck found him short of money and in trouble with the police.
Now 23 and a college dropout, Northern was sentenced on March 6 to I've years probation for trying to cash stolen checks in Kentucky to pay for his gambling habit. He still faces burglary charges in Indiana, and a possible prison term. Jim Chesser, 55, a former Louisville bus driver, jokes that he was "born on a card table, raised on a racetrack" because of his parents? love of bingo halls and horses. So when Casino Aztar opened in Evansville, Ind. , in 1995, it was only natural he?d be a frequent patron. "That?s when my recreational gambling crossed that invisible line to irresponsible, uncontrolled, compulsive gambling," Chesser said.
May 19, 2006
Posted By Terry Goodwin
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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