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| Minimizing Cravings |
Cravings to return to the track, casino, or Bingo hall can be intense and unexpected. Here are a number of strategies for minimizing cravings:
Identify what triggers you to want to go back e.g. stress, boredom loneliness, excitement. Learn different ways to deal with these issues other than through gambling.
Limit your immediate access to money. One cannot gamble without money. Many problem gamblers say that available cash can be triggering to go gambling.
Have someone else control your ... |
| Tips on Breaking Addiction Patterns |
The important thing to remember here is that the patterns keep the real feelings at bay, and prevent actual healing from taking place. It's necessary to cry the pain underlying every pattern in order to truly stop the spinning and destructive behaviors. If you simply attempt to stop the pattern or force a change in the behavior, you'll often find yourself drifting into another addiction. You may exchange smoking for eating, eating for exercise, alcohol for people, and so on.
In order to chan ... |
| Gambling Research/News New Zealand |
City urged to ban all pokies from pubs
21.09.2006
By John Cousins
A daily procession of people whose lives have been wrecked by pokie Machines has convinced Tauranga's gambling addiction counsellor that they should be banned from bars.
Margaret Sloan said the depths to which addicts go to feed the machines meant she would love to see Tauranga City Council lead the country and outlaw pokies from everywhere except casinos.
The council today began a review of the gambling venues bylaw, ... |
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| Conferences |
Conference on Problem Gambling this weekend in Melbourne 16-18 September, 2006.
Details to follow |
| Gambling Research/News U.K. |
6/29/2006: British Medical Association speak on on gambling
At the annual meeting of the British Medical Association doctors called for more research into treatment and prevention into the social poisoning of gambling. This comes as Glasgow Scotland shortlists for one of the UK’s proposed super casinos.
Dr David Sinclair, a GP in Leven, Fife, said doctors felt “like bunnies in the headlights of the gambling lorry” and were expecting more patients to come to th ... |
| Gambling Research/News U.S.A |
Casinos and Crime - The Luck Runs Out
By Richard Morin, Thursday, May 11, 2006; Page A02
When it comes to crime, legalized casino gambling seemed to be a surprisingly good bet: Local unemployment went down, tax revenue went up and crime didn't increase when a casino opened. Some researchers
even found that crime declined immediately after casinos came to town.
Well, the casino cure for crime proved to be just as delusional as gamblers' luck, says Universi ... |
| Effects of gambling on children |
Pokies pull parents, children suffer
[24.02.06]
“Pokie machines and kids left in cars are an imminent disaster”, says John Stansfield, CEO of the Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand (PGF).
This comes after reports of three Masterton women over the last month, leaving their children in hot cars, on hot days, while they gamble on pokie machines.
“The pokies are pulling parents into a trance-like state, with their lights, noises and promises of winni ... |
| The Effect of Stressful Life Events on Problem Gamblers |
ABSTRACT
As most people make gambling a form of entertainment in their lives, the activities of problem and pathological gamblers clearly differ in some way from the social and recreational gambling of most adults. In pathological gambling, individuals create unpleasant consequences for themselves and their loved ones and for some, gambling can become a means of escape rather than a form of excitement. The link between trauma and pathological gambling was observed ... |
| PROBLEM GAMBLING: Identification and Survival Tips |
(This is a series written by Gambler's Help and Relationships Australia workers, and printed in the Herald-Sun in February and March, 2006.)
Problem Gambling
by Kathy Griffin and Julie Houghton
What does a person with a gambling problem look like? The answer is "just like you and me", because the people who develop gambling behaviours are usually normal everyday people who often start what seems to be a harmless outing to the local pokies venue or ... |
