Gamblers Anonymous Addiction

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(1) Discuss your impression of Gamblers Anonymous Twelve-Step Treatment Programs after your experience there, detailing the following:
A definition given for gambling is "the act of playing games of chance in order to win money" (www.recovery.org). Gambling involves risks and include such habits as playing numbers, betting on horse races, and/or games. However, a person who habitually gambles incurs a greater risk of transitioning from a bad habit to into patterns of addiction. To help individuals recover from addiction, Gamblers Anonymous (GA) have proposed the following paraphrased steps for recovery from gambling:

• Admit you are powerless and you are unable to manage your life.
• Recognizing that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to a normal way of thinking and living.
• Decide to turn your life over to the care of that power.
• Search and take a financial and moral inventory of ourselves.
• Admit to another human being, and face your wrongdoings.
• Strive to remove defects of character.
• Humbly ask God help one understand, and ask him to remove our shortcomings.
• List all those who have harmed you, and make amends to all.
• Make direct amends to without injuring them as well.
• Continue to admit and take inventory of wrongdoings.
• Strive through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious, to understand, know and make contact with God, and His will; and pray for the power to carry out that will.
• Practice these principles in all our affairs, and tried to carry this message to other compulsive gamblers (www.recovery.org).

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