Pilot Programme to Help Families of Recovering Gambling Addicts

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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Con: Gambling contributes to poverty, addiction

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Proponents of video gambling choose to call it "video gaming." It is not a harmless video game. It is gambling that causes poverty and addiction. And video gambling is hardly the financial panacea marketed by the gambling industry. The industry …
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SBH offers help for gambling addicted

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Gambling addiction counselor Lawrence Kent, right, from Syracuse Behavioral Healthcare discusses the benefits of their services recently with the Oneida-Sherrill Lions Club as chapter president Pat Fearon, left, listens. Kent can be contacted at 471 …
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