Pathological Gambling Impulse Control Disorders
Pathological Gambling Impulse Control Disorders
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.
Top: Health: Mental Health: Disorders: Impulse Control: Pathological Gambling
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North American Training Institute Home Page - 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.
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Oregon Gambling Addiction Treatment Division - Offers help to every problem gambler in Oregon. Reports on adolescent gambling and problem gambling.
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Friends4Friends - Tries to prevent problem gambling through an awareness campaign targeting young adults.
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GamCare - Offers a telephone help line for people with gambling problems in the United Kingdom. Also, offers an Internet chat help line.
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Know the Odds - Offers educational materials to prevent the harmful effects of problem gambling. Included are curriculum materials for schools and colleges.
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Problem Gambling Hub - Provides a hub for research, treatment, and discussion of problem gambling by the gaming industry and professionals who are concerned with the problem of gambling addiction.
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Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand - Addresses gambling problem issues in New Zealand.
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Gambling with the Good Life - Contains information about an organization that is dedicated to opposing expanded gambling in the state of Nebraska, U.S.A..
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Shawn and Drew's 21 Steps to Stop Gambling - Provides information about a system to stop gambling.
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National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling - Contains an information library for gambling facts.
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Wannabet.org - Contains an on-line magazine for kids concerned about the dangers of gambling addiction.
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National Responsible Gaming Programme - Offers problem gambling education, treatment, telephone counselling, research, and counsellor training in Africa.
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Association of Problem Gambling Service Administrators - 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.
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VOLTS (Video Online Lottery Terminators Society) - Attempts to educates the public in Nova Scotia to the dangers of video lottery machines.
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Chance to Change - Offers a Christ-centered gambling addiction recovery program, produced for churches.
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Niagara Multilingual Prevention/Education Problem Gambling Program - A multilingual gambling information, awareness and prevention site for individuals, families and friends. Educational seminars are available upon request and phone .
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Responsible Gambling Council (Ontario) - Contains information about an organization dedicated to responsible gambling awareness.
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Northern Rivers Gambling Service - Offers counseling for problem gamblers and their families. Situated in Northern New South Wales, Australia.
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Female Gamblers - Contains articles by women gamblers in recovery.
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Want to Stop Gambling? - Offers a free self-help guide developed by a problem gambler.
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Problem Gambling - Offers a newsletter about the diagnosis and treatment of problem gambling for educational and informational purposes only.
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Electronic Journal of Gambling Issues - Deals with gambling as a social phenomenon and the prevention and treatment of gambling problems.
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The Oklahoma Association for Gambling Addiction Awareness - Provides information about the devastating affect that addictive gambling has on the problem gambler and his family.
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Forman Consulting - Offers preventive educational services at high schools, colleges, and workplaces. Includes screening quiz and background information. Based in New England, U.S.A..
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