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Lottery excitement has a dark side

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But Lisa Metzler didn't buy one. The letter carrier is fighting an addiction to gambling that cost her $70,000 -- as much as $10,000 on scratch-off lottery tickets. "Gambling flipped my life upside down," Metzler said. "I shut out my family, shut out my friends, it was all I wanted to do... I was hooked from day one." Metzler got help after she called a hotline run by the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling. But last year, Florida cut its budget by a million and a half dollars while spending $30 million on lottery advertising. "A lot of the funding that our organization received was utilized for marketing and outreach, because we know that's how we get help to the people who need it," said Pat Fowler, who heads the council. Pat Fowler, head of the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling.

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Lisa Metzler

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-0.090658	"Gambling flipped my life upside down," Metzler said. "I shut out my family, shut out my friends, it was all I wanted to do... I was hooked from day one."
0.15491	"People out there need help and if they don't give the funding that is needed for this, there's gonna be so many more cases like mine," Metzler said.
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Pat Fowler

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0.147971	"A lot of the funding that our organization received was utilized for marketing and outreach, because we know that's how we get help to the people who need it," said Pat Fowler, ...
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StateOrCounty: Florida

Overall Sentiment: 0.163072

Relevance: 0.359976

FieldTerminology: Powerball

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.31323

Organization: Florida Council

Overall Sentiment: 0.0143243

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• gambling
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Lottery excitement has a dark side

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Wednesday night's Powerball drawing for at least $550 million is harmless fun for most, but a nightmare for gambling addicts

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