HAD there been a comprehensive behavioral health treatment facility like California’s Casa Palmera in the Philippines, the tragedy at the Resorts World Manila casino-hotel and entertainment complex early Friday could have been prevented. It is now known that the lone gunman who attacked the hotel-casino complex and started the fire that caused the death of 38 people, including himself, and injured 54 others, was a gambling addict on a downward spiral.

The Casa Palmera facility, located in the coastal village of Del Mar in California, treats all kinds of addiction, from drugs to gambling.

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