Pathological Gambling Impulse Control Disorders

Pathological Gambling Impulse Control Disorders

Pathological Gambling

Gambling can be defined as playing a game of chance for stakes. Gambling occurs in many forms, most commonly pari-mutuels (horse and dog tracks, off-track-betting parlors, Jai Alai), lotteries, casinos (slot machines, table games), bookmaking (sports books and horse books), card rooms, bingo and the stock market.Pathological gambling is a progressive disease that devastates not only the gambler but everyone with whom he or she has a significant relationship. In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association accepted pathological gambling as a "disorder of impulse control." It is an illness that is chronic and progressive, but it can be diagnosed and treated.

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- Specializes in responsible programs for the gaming and wagering industries, professional, accredited training programs, and in senior citizen and adolescent compulsive gambling issues. Includes Wanna Bet? magazine for kids concerned about gambling.
- This site is committed to ensuring healthy individuals, families and communities that are free of the personal, social and economic harm resulting from gambling abuse.
- This organization addresses gambling problem issues in the United Kingdom.
- Psychological, social, and behavioral viewpoints on pathological gambling.
- Dedicated to the prevention of problem gambling and other addictive behavior at high schools, colleges and workplace. Based in New England.
- Provides information about the Chinese Community Problem Gambling Project in San Francisco, California. Also, provides a problem gambling self-assessment in both Chinese and English.
- This site concerns a program at McGill University in Quebec, Canada for youth gambling problems.
- Diagnosis and treatment of problem gambling.
- Attempts to educates the public in Nova Scotia to the dangers of video lottery machines.
- Supports the development of services that will reduce the impact of problem gambling. APGSA members are administrators of public funds dedicated to the provision of problem gambling services.
- A counseling service for problem gamblers and their families. Situated in Northern New South Wales, Australia.
- Helping prevent the development of problems associated with gaming in Africa.
- Education to prevent the harmful effects of problem gambling. Curriculum materials for schools and colleges and free downloadable exercises by schools.
- This site is dedicated to preserving "Good Life" by opposing expanded gambling in the state of Nebraska, U.S.A..
- Help is available for every problem gambler in Oregon. This state-funded foundation has reports on adolescent gambling and problem gambling.
- Contains articles by women gamblers in recovery.
- A new program in Australia to monitor problem gamblers and help remove them from gaming venues.
- This organization addresses gambling problem issues in New Zealand.
- This is a Christ-centered gambling addiction recovery program, produced for churches.
- This site is trying to protect the vulnerable from online gambling in the United Kingdom by blocking access to it.
- This site is currently doing a survey for research about poker slot machine gambling addicts.
- An organization that opposes the gambling industry.
- Providing a hub for the research, treatment, and discussion of problem gambling. A center for the gaming industry and professionals who are concerned with the problem of gambling addiction.
- Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse provides academic and government reports on problem gambling in Canada.
- This site presents the Gambler Addiction Index (GAI), a test for gambler problem and pathiology assessment.
- Magazine for kids concerned about the dangers of gambling addiction.
- Home website for author of "A Way to Quit Gambling" for compulsive gambling addiction problem.
- Links provided by the Minnesota Institute of Public Health. Includes "Beyond the Odds", their quarterly newsletter on problem and compulsive gambling.

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