Don't look for the state to put any pressure on casinos to bar people who cannot control themselves. Casinos, and almost any organized gambling operation, are predators and through taxes the state is a parasite that drains off a little sweetness for itself by allowing the gambling to operate.
Same with lotteries. I've seen way more people with hungry kids and foodstamps scounging in the bottom of their pockets for an extra dime to play the lottery, than any well-shod executive. Pure predators, going after the most desperate.
If it was a cartoon, it would be of a person drowning, grabbing a thorny branch held out by a person on the bank. Except when the drowner grabbed it, the person on the bank would let go, laugh, and hold out another thorny branch.
In order for an addict to recover and partnership in the recovery needs to exist. In this case, the casino had him on their list of problem gamblers. As such they broke that trust to Williams to assist in his recovery?
Oh, dont get me started on Lottery players...I just hate standing in line behind them at the store. I just I dont know rubs me against the grain...they are rude and stand there with those damn scratchers then interupt when they win a few bucks. Oh.....!
Last summer, whhile driving to California, I spent a night at the Circus Circus Casino in Reno in the hope of getting a good room at a low price and did not gamble. It was a bummer. The most impressive thing about the whole stay was the huge number of low income people the casino imported and catered to, none of whoom should have been squandering his or her earnings there. Oh well, look at it this way: Legalized gambling is an excellent way to trick the parasite class into paying a bit of voluntary taxes to offset the horrible budren they place on the rest of us.