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Explores the issue of teenage gambling, discussing its addictive nature, effects on the individual and the family, and place in society. ... Read more

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Explores the benefits and drawbacks of gambling, includes personal accounts of teens who have had gambling problems, and discusses the business of gambling and how technology has promoted it. ... Read more

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Gambling in America has always been surrounded by controversy -- from George Washington's troops being distracted by betting games to modern-day Native American casinos, state lotteries, and internet gambling. The growth of gambling isexamined, as well as the disturbing rise in compulsive gambling in America today. (20020201) ... Read more

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Discusses the phenomenon of compulsive gambling among teenagers, how to recognize the signs of addiction, and steps that can be taken to deal with this problem. ... Read more

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The recent increase in the number of casinos, state lotteries, bingo halls, and other legalized betting venues has provoked national discussion about gambling and its impact on the public. Selections offer historical background as well as contemporary perspectives on gambling. (20020601) ... Read more

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Legalized Gambling (Contemporary Issues Companion)
Very well organized for report writing offering many points of view and a well laid out historical perspective.No illustrations in this book but will recommend it for students from the 7th grade level up.Alsorecommended for parents and teachers. ... Read more

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With the advent of the National Gambling Act (No. 33 of 1996) in South Africa, the legislative environment with regards to gambling changed dramatically. Provision was made for the legalisation of various forms of gambling that had hitherto take place either illegally or subject to restricted geographical and other criteria. One of the provisions of the Act is to address the issue of problem gambling and with this in mind, the Human Sciences Research Council was commissioned by the National Gambling Board to undertake research. This book comprises the outcome of the research. It commences with a rapid overview and subsequent chapters detail the historical and international context, and the views and opinions of stakeholders in the South African industry regarding the problem of gambling. ... Read more

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Do You Have a Loved One Who You Suspect Has a Gambling Problem?
Did you know that 4 to 6% of All Gamblers Develop Into Problem or Compulsive Gamblers?

The First Thing To Do Is Find Out If You or Your Loved One Actually Has a Gambling Problem!

Don’t Wait - Get the Answers You Need – and Get Them TODAY!

Does this sound familiar?

Everything is ready for the celebration.Dinner is ready and your guests are milling about eagerly awaiting your husband.The birthday cake is in the kitchen ready to be served as the final crown on the festivities.

Your kids are turning down the lights to be ready to holler SURPRISE when he enters the front door.Fifteen minutes pass and you nervously explain to the guests that he’s probably just stuck in traffic.

As the clock ticks the minutes off, the group becomes more restless and everyone is avoiding your gaze.Finally, after an hour and a half all you can do is make one last apology as the last of the guests makes their excuses and leaves.

Getting the kids off to bed gives you one more delay to the emotions you’ve been holding at bay. But, once the kids are down and you slowly survey the remnants of the party that never was a floodgate of tears finally spills over.

You just can’t ignore the facts any longer.Your husband, the love of your life has let you down yet again.More accurately, he has let himself down.It’s time to take control before he is totally lost forever.

If that or a similar scenario has ever played out in your life maybe this sounds familiar.Perhaps you have not had to face the facts directly but you have a friend or other loved one who has a problem with gambling.

No matter what the circumstances, just as the headline above states, you need answers.And, you need those answers today.

Fortunately, there’s a new resource available that will give you the answers to those burning questions that you need.That resource is Overcoming Gambling Addiction. Just take a look at what’s inside:

· What is Gambling Addiction – Find out the professional diagnosis and how many different types of gambling addiction there are.

· Symptoms of Gambling Addiction – Discover the many symptoms including, preoccupation, escape, lies lack of control and more.

· Three Phases of Gambling Addiction – Are you familiar with the three phases of gambling addition?We expose them here.

· What Causes Gambling Addiction – Uncover the causes of gambling addiction – you may be surprised.

· What Are the Effects of Gambling Addiction – Expose the effects of a gambling addiction.

· Who Gambles – Reveal who the gambling addicts are this too may surprise you.

· Who Is Affected by Gambling Addiction – It’s more people than you might imagine.

· Problem Gambling vs. Compulsive Gambling – Do you know the difference?We reveal the difference here.

· Gambling and Self-destruction – Learn just how destructive it can be.

· Gambling Addiction and the Internet – The advent of the Internet is a serious enable for the gambling addict.

· What Are the Different Types of Gambling – What, you thought there was just one?

· Gambling and Gender – Who gambles more and what do they gamble on?Also, what happens why adding alcohol to mix.

· How to Stop Gambling – Learn about the different types of treatment that are available.

· Are You at Risk – This is a serious question and you can find the answer here.

· Gambling Addiction Resources – All about getting more help.

A gambling addiction is a very, very serious problem.But, just having a few answers and some guidance can mean everything to helping you face the problem head on.

Grab the bull by the horns and get the answers you need today so you can follow the right plan of action tomorrow.

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Ronald Pavalko's unbiased, impeccably researched book explores the societal, economic, and personal ramifications of gambling, enabling your students to make informed personal, as well as public policy choices, on gambling-related issues. Following an overview of relevant popular, scholarly, and therapeutic literature, the author examines sociological perspectives on gambling and the history of gambling in the United States from Colonial times through the new millenium.He explores the economic impact of legal gambling at both the national and local levels, and then turns to the roles that legislatures, courts, administrative agencies, and voters play in legalizing or criminalizing gambling. ... Read more

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Excellent read.
Professor Pavalko has written an excellent overview for those who know gambling and for those who want to learn about this hidden addiction.From looking at the historic roots to the future, he is able to take a complex issue and put it into an extremely readable format.I had a hard time puting it down before I finished. ... Read more

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Thousands of people with very different backgrounds and personalities are afflicted with a benumbing addiction to gambling. The author, now freed from his own enslavement to gambling, exposes the causes of the illness, describes its progressive stages, and shows how it changes people. Using his own experience and a tested, biblically-based strategy, he leads readers to the spiritual transformation and the practical program required for release from the addiction. This book also provides three case studies of individuals freed from the addiction. ... Read more

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My Father stopped gambling
My daddy stopped gambling using this book. He said it told him exactly what to do to stop.I am glad my daddy is now well.

Let down
Sorry but I dont understand how this book got such a high rating on Amazon.
It didnt offer much help to someone with a problem - I think the title is misleading.
I cant see the benefit of reading this book. Gamblers need direction and help, not just understanding.
Very disappointing.

Gambling Addiction- a must read for addicts
John Eades has a unique perspective as a trained psychologist and addiction specialist who lost his own position and everything else to his own addiction. The story of his recovery will not only enrich the lives of all who read it, but could well lead to more recoveries.
As a practicing physician and a friend of Dr. Eades I have seen and felt his pain; and I have also seen the joy his recovery and his new career path have brought.
Heed his advice. You too can have a new life!

Donald M Philpott,MD ... Read more

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Investigates the paradox of why a large proportion of the population engages in some form of gambling, despite the knowledge that they are most likely to lose, and even when they know that the gambling industry makes huge profits. Do gamblers simply accept their losses as fate or do they believe that they will be able to overcome the negative odds in some miraculous way? The paradox is complicated by the fact that those habitual gamblers who know best the systematic losses cannot be avoided, are the least likely to stop gambling. Detailed analysis of actual gambling behaviour has shown that gamblers are the victims of a variety of cognitive illusions, which lead them to believe that the general statistical rules determining the probability of loss do not apply to them as individuals. ... Read more

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This is an overview of all aspects of gambling indicating how to recognize the behaviour patterns of the compulsive gambler, what can happen when the gambler finally runs out of money, how gambling affects women and the growth of compulsive gambling among children as young as four and five. The author gives practical and sympathetic advice to the compulsive gambler and his family on how they can break the compulsion and regain control of their lives. ... Read more

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A Review of Gordon Moody's book "Quit Compulsive Gambling"
Money is probably the most important unit in everyone's existence. That is why losing money is not so pleasant experience at all. Gambling is one of those vices which once you have started, it is hard to give up. Furthermore, it is not only the gambler who suffers, but also the people surrounding him. It is apparent that people start gambling in order to win money. But why are they not able to stop? What are the consequences that happen inside their souls during the process of addiction? Such questions cannot be answered on the spur of the moment. That is why, my strong interest towards gambling urged me to do a research on the subject thus penetrating into punters' way of thinking. Fortunately, I found a book entitled "Quit Compulsive Gambling" written by Gordon Moody, who turned out to be steeped in the atmosphere of gambling and its impact ( actually, he is the founder of the national organization for compulsive gamblers called Gamblers Anonymous, which will be presented later in my review).In the book, the author uncovers the disorders that permeate into those who gamble excessively and, at the same time, discloses the impact this terrible "shortcoming" has on their lives and those of their families. Moody also emphasizes the unpleasant fact that nowadays such disorders have made their ways to the youngest and most vulnerable members of our society, whereas in the past it largely existed in mature men. Most of all, it is a book made to provide light in the end of the tunnel for those afflicted by obsessive gambling and to awake those who wish to help them. Throughout the whole book, the author resorts to his personal experience. The beginning shows the audience how to recognize whether there is a gambler in your house. Moody says that almost always punters withdraw into themselves. They change their personality and develop a secret life- "many wives suspect that there is another woman" (16). From there on, problems arise. Thus gamblers' environmental estrangement becomes evident. It is because he has chosen new goals and to achieve them he has to follow new paths. Doing this "he has `put on', like a coat, a different `person" (25). The author's manner of expression is faultless. The gambler is gnawed by his own deeds. He is not able to admit his guilt in front of his relatives. He is obsessed by the idea to win back his money. That is why he lies them. In fact, he steals from himself. Actually, the compulsive gambler becomes compulsive liar and compulsive robber. However, every initiative has its end. Mr Moody explains to the reader that pathological gamblers eventually look for help when they reach the bottom: " They suffer an acute crisis- personal rather than financial- which shocks them out of their obsession and forces them to face the truth about themselves" (37). The author again resorts to his own experience. He remembers a man who was on the threshold of committing suicide because of gambling. The person concerned had lost his wife because of his passion. Fortunately, Moody somewhat manages to make him participate in the Gamblers Anonymous meetings. To be honest, at this moment the author introduces very skilfully his own organization GA and its kindred one Gam-Anonbecause from then on the book is entirely subordinate to the acts of the two cultural and educational activities. The first one has to do with gamblers themselves while the second takes care of gamblers' relatives. The most important thing Moody explains about GA gatherings is that after assiduously attending them, gamblers are refreshed and rejuvenated. They are "new people in a new world. They even look different. Overweight people become slimmer, and overthin people put on weight. Their eyes clear and their expression change" (51). The most important cause for this change in gamblers' lives, the author points out, is related to the fact that all participants in the meetings are from one and the same breed. They are compulsive gamblers. They listen carefully to each other. They are like brothers and sisters. Most of all, gamblers are more apt to reveal their secrets to strangers than to those they know. Everyone benefits from listening to the statements of each other. They are accepted and welcomed not as being gamblers but because of being gamblers. In other words, people enter GA not to lose the ordinary sum of money again, but to win a portion of self-esteem thus urging them to quit gambling. Eventually, Moody proudly promulgates the secret in the meetings of GA: " . . . nothing is condemned and nothing is condoned" ( 56). In other words, members support each other. They resemble one entity which faces the difficulties and try to solve them. " The way to the police station can be a step on the way to recovery and if he goes, Gamblers Anonymous will go with him" (75). This is the proof Moody gives for stressing on the support GA renders to its members. However, the process of recovery is not only connected to abstaining from gambling, but also to regaining the trust of your relatives. To recover trust above all means to heal a wound and it does not happen quickly. It is extremely difficult for both sides. The gambler is impatient, irritable and bad-tempered. It is normal- to change your life is traumatic. On the other hand, the relatives are determined to notice that there is some kind of turnover and to stop interpreting everything through their fears. The path is ominous but glorious. After reading Moody's book, the gambler will find out that it is worth to make an attempt. Another issue that the author raises in his book is that in recent years a considerable number of children start gambling. This time Moody refuses to cite examples from his experience as a founder of GA , but he admits that there really was a small flood of young people participating in the meetings. However, the author discusses mainly the way in which relationships within the family are accepted by a child gambler. The symptoms which tell him on, Moody underscores, are in most cases related t losing weight and changingbehavior." The child'sparents notice changes . . . but often put them to adolescence"(110). They cannot believe that their child is involved in suchan initiative as gambling. They see that something is goingwrong but they have no idea what it might be. Very often parents fear that drugs are the main cause for the child's deterioration. I myself had an unpleasant experience some years ago when I was keen on playing the poker machines. I spent all day in the club. I was lured when during myfirst play I won a considerable amount of money. However, everything went there where it had come from. One day my mother saw me enter the poker club again and I was severely punished. I was given money only to eat and this made me stop. I thank God that such moment happened too early in my life because otherwise, if I had undertaken it during the years of puberty I think I would have never given it up. Overall, Gordon Moody, through the course of his book, makes the reader feel like compulsive gambler. The author gives a lot of examples, for example the one with the man on the brink of committing suicide. Then expresses the circumstances that have led the victim to begin with the activity called gambling. And eventually, with great honor tells the audience that he somewhat saved a lot of lives by succeeding to cure many people obsessed by compulsive gambling. Having in mind all this said above, you can hardly doubt Moody's credibility. Everything is based upon his personal experience. He is not able to create the huge variety of situations in the book on his own. He finds addicts, he suffers with them, he helps them he lives with their shortcoming and finally it all works.Most of all, this book, as a whole, is not only addressed to compulsive gamblers, but also to every human being who is caught up with the vicissitudes of fortune. People should never surrender, there is always a way of exiting difficult situations. In conclusion, Gordon Moody's book "Quit Compulsive Gambling" views all aspects of compulsive gambling- how to recognize the behaviour of the gambler, what happens when the gambler is broke, how to make people understand that problem gambling is tantamount to an illness. Furthermore, it advises addicts on the obnoxious and perilous consequences this phenomenon can bring to the life of every family.

Works Cited Moody, Gordon. Quit Compulsive Gambling: the action plan for gamblers and their families. Great Britan. Thorsons Publishing Group, 1990 ISBN 0-7225-1601-0 $ 7.95 ... Read more

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The explanatory power of economic theory is tested by the phenomenon of irrational consumption, examples of which include such addictive behaviors as disordered and pathological gambling. Midbrain Mutiny examines different economic models of disordered gambling, using the frameworks of neuroeconomics (which analyzes decision making in the brain) and picoeconomics (which analyzes patterns of consumption behavior), and drawing on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain. The authors argue that pathological gambling is a true addiction and that addictive gambling is the basic form of addiction, revealing the core character of all addiction.

The book describes addiction in neuroeconomic terms as chronic disruption of the balance between the midbrain dopamine system and the prefrontal and frontal serotonergic system, and reviews recent evidence from trials testing the effectiveness of antiaddiction drugs. The authors argue that the best way to understand disordered and addictive gambling is with a hybrid picoeconomic-neuroeconomic model, and their demonstration of this framework's applicability to gambling provides a concrete case study for the more abstract description of picoeconomic-neuroeconomic complementarity in Don Ross's earlier book Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation (MIT Press, 2005). ... Read more

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Dr. Abraham j. Twerski, rabbi, physicianand psychiatrist of world renown brings his many decades of experience to bear in helping us deal with compulsive gambling for ourselves and our loved ones.

Like drug, alcohol and spouse abuse, we have been too slow in acknowledging the problem of compulsive gambling in the jewish community!

It is crucial that we come to grips with the reality of the problem. Lives are being destroyed, families are beingruined and too few of us recognize compulsive gambling for the disease it is and for the disaster it spawns. Like undiagnosed cancer, compulsive gambling that is ignored or covered up can only progress. Once we accept that there is no immunity from it or from its terrible consequences, we can take steps to forestall the tragedy that will surely come!

Rabbi twerski tells us that early detection can prevent catastrophe, but only if we are willing to face reality.

Finally - a book which explains compulsive gambling, tells you how it can be recognized and indicates what can be done about it. Real people. Real cases. Real help.

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The Free Drink: The Gambling Addiction Epidemic is an inside look at the various stages of a powerful gambling addiction as well as observations about the gambling industry and the gambling environment. The book is written from a journalistic perspective and from the personal experience of the author, who has journeyed through a compulsive gambling addiction. Gambling in the United States and worldwide is growing at a steady increasing fast rate. Gambling is everywhere and as a result has given birth to millions of gamblers who have become addicted to this insidious powerful addiction of the mind. Gambling addiction is a life destructive progressive disease and has become a worldwide epidemic. ... Read more

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EASY GUIDE TO GAMBLING ADDICTION
THIS BOOK IS AN EASY TO READ BOOK FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND SOCIAL BACKGROUNDS.THE BOOK IS ALSO A QUICK GUIDE ABOUT THE INISIDIOUS COMPULSIVE OR PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING ADDICTION BEING AN ADDICTION OF THE MIND.A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ADDICTIVE MIND AND THE ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR OF GAMBLING IS GAINED BY READING THIS BOOK.

Good book for all ages
This is a very readable book. The language is easy to understand. It is a story of inspiration from an author who wished to inform others about the dangerous world of compulsive gambling. Some may think it is too simple, but I believe that is the point of the book. He lays everything out on the line from the feelings you get when you are in a casino to the terrible feelings of hitting rock bottom.

Read this book if you want to learn about the gambling world and the terrors it holds.

Wooden
The points brought up in this book are valid, but they aren't anything that even the most naive person wouldn't know.I thought the book was poorly written and was distracted by some of the misspelled words.The author tends to fixate on certain things (such as people gamble to look at waitresses in sexy costumes), when the reality is if you have a gambling addiction, it isn't the free drink, the free meal, the free room that takes you into a casino, it's the GAMBLING.He does discuss internet gambling and has a strong point that the arcades attached to the big casinos in Las Vegas tend to prep children into moving into the main casino as soon as they reach 21.But he doesn't take into account the mini casinos and card rooms in nearly ever state that don't offer you all the freebies and are still bustling with business.I felt his pain, but if you are looking for insight into gambling addiction, you will not find it in this book. ... Read more