Do lotteries contribute to compulsive gambling?

There are certainly pathological and problem gamblers who play the lottery to excess. They are, however, few and far between. According to the Iowa Department of Human Services after 10 years of the lottery's existence only 6 percent of the calls to the state's problem gambling hotline related to lottery play.

A 2002 Iowa study also found that lottery games only accounted for 6 percent of the financial losses reported by those presenting for compulsive gambling treatment. In Minnesota, the lottery accounted for 4 percent of hotline calls in 1997. Also in Minnesota, of the 944 admitted to the state's gambling treatment centers from 1990 to 1996, only eight cited the lottery as their preferred game.

A Colorado study found that problem gamblers were 4.7 times more likely to have visited a casino in the past week and 5.2 times more likely to have played bingo than non-problem gamblers. By contrast, they were only 1.9 times more likely to have played the lottery, the lowest figure of any ... more.

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