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A gambling expert at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas, Dr. William Thompson, says most persons do not see a connection between buying a $1 piece of paper and the later consequences. Medical research reports that purchasing that ticket, with all the hopes and fantasies of ''what if,'' creates the very same effect on the brain as a person taking an illegal drug. That ''rush of endorphins'' then adds to more unrealistic hopes and eventual addiction. Plus, losing creates a panic to recover the loss by trying again and again, leading to more compulsion and addiction.

Also, gambling addiction can be harder to overcome than drugs because 1) most don't see it as addiction, 2) we can't keep people from money, 3) legalizing lottery gambling takes away a social and negative stigma, and 4) adding state sanctioned marketing that promotes the lottery as ''Tennessee's Ticket to Fun!'' results in an increase in persons addicted to gambling.

Some say, ''Well, many compulsive gamblers were already prone to gambling addiction.'' That may be, but the majority of those persons did not begin until the lottery was legalized.

A Georgia Department of Human Resources study reports that gambling in Georgia in 1995 cost the state $224 million dollars a year. In 1994, Dr. Robert Goodman, director of the United States Gambling Research Institute, discovered that each person addicted to gambling costs society an average of $13,200 a year.