What are the signs of compulsive gambling? – When a full-blown compulsive gambling addiction is present, it’s pretty obvious. Outsiders can see that there’s a preoccupation with the attainment of money to go play a particular game, fantasizing about the outcome, a lack of other normative behaviors or a discounting of other normal behaviors. It’s more important to see the subtler pre-addiction symptoms developing in the individual, the potential gambling addict. It’s a gradual increase, a little bit more here, a little bit more there. Spending all their leisure time involved in gambling activities, or spending more time associating with people who involve themselves in the same activities. Once the gambling addiction is present in an individual, it’s almost too obvious. You can’t miss it. For more information visit www.aaalternatives.com

 

RI restores funds for gambling addiction program

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The move comes after The Associated Press last week reported on the funding cut, which came as gambling is poised to expand in the region. Rhode Island voters will decide in the fall whether to allow the state's two slot parlors to expand into full …
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RI eliminates funds for gambling addiction program

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This year, the General Assembly eliminated funding altogether. Instead, lawmakers voted to make Newport Grand and Twin River slot parlors contribute at least $ 100,000 to gambling addiction treatment, but only if voters pass referendums this fall that …
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I spent my children's inheritance in the casino. Gambling addict admits to …

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Ian Semel, also on the sofa with Eamon Holmes and Ruth Langsford, is a gambling addiction counselor who calls gambling the hidden addiction. He said: 'Once you're in a casino it can feel like a pull. And the difference with gambling over every other …
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Gambling Addiction Hard To Overcome

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Bachmeier says that the addiction has many correlations with drug addictions, ”You would find that the person who is gambling, if you took a picture of his brain when he`s gambling and you took a picture of another person who is taking cocaine, there …
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