An Illinois group that helps those who are dealing with a gambling addiction is asking artists to submit work for an annual competition.
Anita Pindiur is executive director of Way Back Inn, which offers gambling disorder treatment. She said the journey for gambling disorder recovery can be captured with art. She explained a previous entry in the Illinois Department of Human Services’ “Are You Really Winning?” campaign.
“I believe it was a 19-year-old gentleman who did this wonderful little piece of art,” she said, “where he had the different slot machines and kind of the strings like on a puppet, and it looked like, you know, there’s a puppet master controlling you and the machines.”
