It just created for me a cornucopia of sensation. Maybe the smell of the perfumed hostesses, the alcohol. It was the re-creation of an atmosphere that I knew so well. 'It wasn't just the sights and sounds it went beyond that. 'It was a combination of the senses that recaptured a feeling and an experience that transported me back in time to a gambling den,' said Beck, who moved to Maryland in 2015 and is now clinical director of the Maryland Center for Excellence on Problem Gambling.
Once there, he experienced a familiar, heady rush. Beck, a former New Jersey resident, signed up for that state's gambling exclusion program in 2001 and said he didn't return to a casino until attending a Bob Dylan concert at the Borgata in Atlantic City in 2008.
