Quebec - After years of legal wrangling, the hearing of a potentially crippling class-action lawsuit against Loto-Quebec opened in Quebec City Monday with the testimony of a former journalist who squandered more than CAD 360,000 in video lottery terminals (VLTs). "Gambling was like a drug to me, it was all I could think of. It consumed me," explained Nelson Labrie, 69, who worked for the newspaper Le Soleil for over 25 years.