European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 upsurge in new York times about on third of the nations 12 million compulsive gamblers Are according to Arnold vice president of the National Council on compulsive gambling in new studies published recently indicate that by the year women May account for half of the americans with the the studies were published by Robert a Veter ans administration psychiatrist and the founder of the National foundation for the study and treatment of pathological a research and treatment Center in Custer said 600 male and female gamblers were studied Over 13 years and the results were published in his recent when Luck runs although Only 1 percent of those seeking treatment and joining gamblers Anonymous five years ago were Wexler the proportion has risen to 20 percent we used to see nothing but Middle class White said Valerie a psychologist at the foundation in but the compulsive Gam Bler no longer fits into a neat since the lotteries we Are seeing More Blacks and now gambling is truly Lorenz said women with gambling problems come from All social vocations and age one member of gamblers can still remember As a Young woman in new she lost entire i was working 40 hours a week and making after said 47 years old and now a resident of i was gambling once a and when i lost my entire paycheck i would take a Streetcar or bus instead of a i would buy one Chicken and Cut it up into four parts or eat hot dogs for the what started As a social pastime soon turned into a 30 year compulsion that Cost Joy thousands of experts cited several reasons for the surge in the pro portion of gamblers who Are including greater accessibility of the changing social role of a photo women gamblers come from All social vocations and age women and the increasing availability of there has been a change in the amount of risk taking by said Carol Nagy a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California and chairman of the program for study of women and it has to do with having higher while gambling is very visible nationwide in of track betting Parlours and lotteries compulsive Gam bling is dubbed the invisible you Are a but there Are no said another member of gamblers who lost More than her business and her childrens Trust funds to Atlantic City with an alcoholic you can but with gambling there Are no telltale when my straight friends found they  believe i am a rational person when it comes to but when i walked into the casinos Money didst mean it was the thrill of Many gamblers cite the excitement of making a not the potential As their driving the feeling that comes with gambling is better than your husband and Joy in the american psychiatric association designated compulsive gambling a psychiatric the group defines a compulsive Gambler As one who is chronically and progressively unable to resist impulses to Gam ble and for whom gambling disrupts or damages vocation and personal i was a said a los Angeles grand Moth i didst even want my own kids i spent my nights gambling and my Days Diane said she tried to commit suicide twice before joining gamblers when i first she there were no now a lot but they dont i guess women dont like to admit they have a Rena chief of psychiatry at the Lyons veterans administration medical Center in said women might delay seeking treatment because they seemed to be bailed out More often by their families than men which masks the for the 34yearold owner of a Chi Cago travel said a tense confrontation with a Bookie made her borrow from her father to pay off a another she she lost of her own Money and she had borrowed from her women cocaine their numbers Are rising by Elizabeth Pennisi United press International first cocaine was a drug in the United states for single upwardly Mobile now specialists say it is also a drug for girlfriends and a treat exchanged for sexual women Are said Nannette a new York psychologist who has dealt with More than 500 women cocaine users in the past 15 everywhere they men Are offering them in male cocaine users in the United states outnumbered women women account for 42 percent of cocaine according to surveys of callers to a co Caine hotline based at fair Oaks Hospital in a year the average female user was College Edu with an income of or almost half spent per week on their less than men because so much is Given to since then the pattern of cocaine use in women has followed closely that of it has spread nationwide to less affluent the female user today is As Likely to be a Saleswoman or Legal Secretary As a stockbroker or about three quarters earn less than a Many women Are caught off guard by their said Arnold director of addiction research and treatment at the Regent Hospital in new York the problem with cocaine is that in the beginning it delivers what it says its going said Confounder of creative solutions in new York City and coauthor of cocaine seduction and it suppresses appetite and therefore helps control it releases inhibitions and makes up for Lack of self esteem and Confidence and it provides Energy for the Supero mans the immediate physical effects pounding Ting Ling fingertips can be interpreted As sexual excitement or extra for women bed Down with men they find repulsive and risk careers they struggled Long and hard re searchers cocaine becomes a 1 priority in their lives and they hate themselves for said for years researchers and users alike thought cocaine did not cause physical but research with monkeys indicates the opposite is said Mark director of research at fair Oaks the brain reacts to cocaine As if the drug were important to the body biological even it stimulates taking at a rate much greater than any other Gold its the Only drug that animals will take to rather than causing an increase in sexual one of the most common problems cited by heavy users is a loss of interest in sex and performance of sexual fun said it seems to stimulate abnormal Levels of certain Hor Mones and chemical messengers in the moods Sway from Giddy and energetic to irritable and paranoid As the overexcited brain is drained temporarily of its mood regu to avoid the downswing in Many people take cocaine compulsively or follow its use with another prolonged use can Lead to More permanent imbalances of these chemicals and psychological in susceptible it can cause heart failure in some it brings out men usually Stop their cocaine seeking behaviour Short of it costing them their but not so for said caught up in the image of being Strong and resist coming for treatment until their lives Are devastated and their finances Are tied into cocaine use for Many women is a relationship with a about 90 percent Are introduced to cocaine As part of the romantic or sexual said the kind of woman who becomes addicted to cocaine is often a woman who is very for any number of with having men give them at least at cocaine lets them give up control and makes them less but it is the not the sex or the that eventually drives the eight out of 10 women can be weaned of their cocaine said they take advice and direction More willingly than men and respond Well in self help As a women Are very successful in treatment be cause the problem that leads to cocaine use is essentially related to Lack of there Are really Concrete changes they can make Early on in said