10-Nov-06. The house always wins. Calgary Sun, 52.

McGill University researcher Alissa Sklar says teen gambling has become a huge problem over the past five or six years. The university’s International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High Risk Behaviors has set up a new website http://www.gamtalk4teens.org/ that offers teens a chance to chat anonymously with trained counsellors about how to help themselves or their friends with gambling problems. Research studies reveal 70 per cent of underage youth – those under 18 – report gambling of some kind in the last year.