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    Understanding Compulsive Gambling: Recovery from Compulsive Gambling
    Understanding Compulsive Gambling: Recovery from Compulsive Gambling
    Understanding Compulsive Gambling: Recovery from Compulsive Gambling
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    Understanding Compulsive Gambling: Recovery from Compulsive Gambling

    By Harry L. Lesieur, Ph.D.

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    A concise overview of addictive gambling. This Understanding Compulsive Gambling pamphlet clearly describes both the emotional progression and the effects of compulsive gambling on our lives, finances, and families. Personal stories demonstrate that change is possible through programs such as Gamblers Anonymous.

    A concise overview of addictive gambling. This Understanding Compulsive Gambling pamphlet clearly describes both the emotional progression and the effects of compulsive gambling on our lives, finances, and families. Personal stories demonstrate that change is possible through programs such as Gamblers Anonymous.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHazelden Publishing
    Release dateJan 25, 2011
    ISBN9781616491123
    Understanding Compulsive Gambling: Recovery from Compulsive Gambling

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      Understanding Compulsive Gambling - Harry L. Lesieur, Ph.D.

      INTRODUCTION

      It became an obsession to reach for that high. But you reach for it so often that your bets get bigger and bigger in order to attain that extreme emotion.… Once you progress to betting thousands, you can’t go back to betting hundreds and getting a kick out of it.

      —VANCE

      When I was in my mid-twenties, I would go to the racetrack, make a little hit, go back and bet a little baseball, football, whatever the season. And I used to control myself, or so I thought. I found out when I was about thirty that that wasn’t a normal week of gambling. For me, if I lost $50 on a Monday, I had to bet it on Tuesday to get even.

      —SONNY

      In all honesty, I started going out gambling when my husband was drunk so we wouldn’t fight. By that time, my older kids were old enough to take care of the little ones. I started out on the nickel slot machines and progressed to the dollar machines. At first I allowed myself only so much money. And the money I had gave me time—time away, time to not think, time to not worry. Then I went to a casino where you could write checks. You didn’t have to go to the bank machine or anywhere else for money. And that’s how I did most of my damage, writing checks.

      —HELEN

      America is experiencing a gambling boom that will make stories like these more common. In 1974, the Commission on the Review

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