Overcoming Gambling Addiction
Overcoming Gambling Addiction – This straight-talking, empowering video offers essential information on how problem gambling develops, its damaging impact on individuals and families, and how it can successfully be treated. Through candid first-hand accounts from four recovering gamblers, along with illuminating commentary from mental health experts, the program shows gamblers, their families, and therapists: how an alluring diversion becomes a shameful secret as problem gambling takes hold; common myths and misperceptions about gambling–and why ‘winning big’ is so unlikely; the benefits of individual and group therapy and self-help approaches; and ways to overcome setbacks in recovery and make meaningful, lasting changes.
Curse of gambling addiction hits GAA
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The growing curse of gambling addiction is "like a steam train coming down the tracks" for the GAA, according to Gaelic Players' Association boss, Dessie Farrell. Three inter-county players have availed of GPA services in the past year to enter …
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Pilot programme to help families of recovering gambling addicts
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The free eight-week programme, known as Gambling Addiction Management through Education (GAME) – Family, is intended to aid families "make sense of their situation" and receive professional help for their loved-ones' recovery. Family members will learn …
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Addiction a sure-fire winner if Md. expands gambling
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Treatment of this problem isn't easy to get. Gambling addiction is defined as an impulse control disorder, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. That makes it more like kleptomania than alcoholism. The group that is …
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