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Small Study Shows 60 Percent of Southeast Asian Refugees Have Gambling Problem.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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August 19, 2003
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By Rick Green, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 19--Refugees from Southeast Asia show astounding rates of problem gambling, according to a small, first-of-its-kind study published this month by a University of Connecticut researcher.
Among 96 Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese participants, nearly 60 percent were found to be pathological gamblers, said Nancy Petry, an associate professor of psychiatry at the UConn Health ...
