Gambling Addiction

Gambling addiction is an urge to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. The term is preferred to compulsive gambling among many professionals, as few people described by the term experience true compulsions in the clinical sense of the word. Problem gambling often is defined by whether harm is experienced by the gambler or others, rather than by the gambler's behavior. Severe problem gambling may be diagnosed as clinical pathological gambling if the gambler meets certain criteria.

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Related Links:

• US National Library of Medicine
• Gamblers Anonymous

Recent Hope Cube Blog Entries For Gambling Addiction

• Bumps in the road Mon, September 10, 2007 - [view]
  I dealt with a gambling addiction for about 8 years before finally seeking treatment at an inpatient facility in South Carolina.  It was truly one of the best experiences of my life.  I have 5 months of sobriety.  But until the last week everything was just floating along as it had prior to going to treatment.  Part of the focus there was about my life being different when I came home- and part of that might mean moving on to a different job.  Well, my "higher power" decided to move that along- I was let go from my job last week.  I was there for 4 years.  It's a little traumatizing.  But I'm going to get through it....