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Posted by Lakeside on 15th April 2008

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50 Most Read Articles January 2008

Posted by Lakeside on 7th February 2008

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  1. 12-Step Recovery Theory and Application
  2. AA and the disease concept of alcoholism
  3. AA attendance was best predictor of abstinence
  4. AA Membership
  5. AA Recommendations
  6. Abstinent alcoholics can have reduced brain activation
  7. Al-Anon offers new life
  8. Alcohol Abuse in Older People
  9. Alcohol consumption in patients pancreatitis
  10. Alcohol Metabolization
  11. Alcoholic jealousy
  12. Alcoholics & Addicts Can’t ‘Just Say No’
  13. Alcoholics Anonymous and church involvement
  14. Alcoholics can benefit from Al-Anon
  15. Alcoholics don’t see dangerous situation
  16. Alcoholism and Personality Disorders
  17. Alcoholism is also Genetic
  18. ALCOHOLISM MYTHS
  19. Anti-craving Naltrexone Injection Reduces Drinking
  20. Beyond Codependency
  21. Brief-TSF Description
  22. Brief-TSF holistic treatment
  23. COUNSELOR CHARACTERISTICS
  24. Craving Reduction
  25. Effects of gambling addiction
  26. Elderly substance abuse
  27. Free Inhalant Abuse Education
  28. Management of substance-abuse disorders
  29. Mindfulness Can Help Recovery
  30. Neurotransmitter and neuromodulatory mechanisms involved in alcohol abuse and alcoholism
  31. Physician Screening for Alcohol Cost Effective but Underutilized
  32. Relapse Prevention in Primary Care
  33. Return to Drinking After Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease
  34. Screening Can Decrease Teen Risk Behaviors
  35. Spiritual Awakening for Recovery
  36. Spirituality and Helping in Alcoholics Anonymous
  37. Strategies for Dealing With Denial
  38. Symptoms of alcoholism
  39. The Aging Alcoholic
  40. THE DRY DRUNK
  41. Therapeutic Alliance
  42. Treatment and twelve-step strategies
  43. TSF Description
  44. Twelve Step recovery is spiritual
  45. TWELVE STEPS TO RECOVERY FROM BURNOUT
  46. UK Alcohol and Drug Professional Training
  47. What about partners of alcoholics?
  48. What About This Spiritual Awakening Thing
  49. What is Brief-TSF?

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Posted by Lakeside on 13th January 2008

 


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Effects of gambling addiction

Posted by Lakeside on 10th January 2008

What are the social and economic effects of gambling addiction?

In 1998 the National Gambling Impact Study Commission funded a study to determine the overall cost to society posed by problem and pathological gamblers in the United States.

The results showed that approximately $5 billion was lost annually, with an additional $40 billion in lifetime costs for productivity reductions, social services and creditor losses. Studies have concluded that two out of three pathological gamblers commit illegal acts in order to pay gambling-related debts. This places a hardship on our legal systems, prison systems and public assistance programs.

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The following consequences of problem gambling all result in economic costs for states, communities and individuals:

  • Job loss, unemployment
  • Debt, bankruptcy
  • Embezzlement, fraud, check forgery
  • Eviction, forced home sales
  • Crime, arrest, incarceration
  • Poor physical and mental health, suicide
  • Alcohol and drug abuse

The families of problem gamblers also suffer greatly from physical and psychological abuse; harassment and threats from bill collectors and creditors; increased stress stemming from neglect and divorce; and the extra financial burden placed on them to repay debts.

Sadly, children are negatively affected by gambling addiction in several ways.

  • Physical and emotional abandonment is a very real phenomenon.
  • “Casino kids” are left in cars or on the periphery of the gambling action while their parents gamble, or may spend hours with babysitters, thus missing the nurturing they need.
  • Children of pathological gamblers are typically abused verbally, mentally and physically by the gambler, and often even more so by the co-dependent spouse.
  • Finally, these children are much more likely to develop gambling addiction than their peers.

Excerpted from research: Effects of Problem Gambling. California Council on Problem Gambling (Anaheim, CA); 2006.

Gambling Addiction: The Problem, the Pain and the Path to Recovery


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