What is Gambling-Addiction
Compulsive gambling is an urge or addiction to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. A preferred term among many professionals is problem gambling, as f...
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Gambling Addiction & Recovery Treatments
| Treatment | Description | Reviewed by | Helps | |
 | Distancing | Distancing is the appropriate selection of distance between oneself and a combatant t... Read Reviews | 259 Members | 62% of the time |
| Gamblers Anonymous | Gamblers Anonymous (GA) is Twelve Step program for problem gamblers. The only require... Read Reviews | 152 Members | 83% of the time |
| Psychotherapy | Psychotherapy is a range of techniques which use only dialog and communication and wh... Read Reviews | 24 Members | 77% of the time |
| 12 Step Program | The original 12 Step Program is Alcoholics Anonymous - which deals with what they cal... Read Reviews | 7 Members | 83% of the time |
| Support from Friends & Family | The support and encouragement of friends and family can have a very powerful effect o... Read Reviews | 6 Members | 100% of the time |
| Prayer | Prayer is an active effort to communicate with a deity or spirit either to offer prai... Read Reviews | 6 Members | 100% of the time |
| Willpower | Self control is perceived in a few ways. One of which is philosophical and might be d... Read Reviews | 6 Members | 67% of the time |
| Positive Thinking | Positive thinking and a positive attitude may indeed have power. In recent years scie... Read Reviews | 5 Members | 100% of the time |
| Writing | "Learn as much by writing as by reading." - Lord Acton Read Reviews | 5 Members | 60% of the time |
| Zoloft | Zoloft is an orally administered antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake i... Read Reviews | 4 Members | 50% of the time |
| Celexa | Citalopram or nitalapram is an antidepressant drug used to treat depression associate... Read Reviews | 4 Members | 33% of the time |
| Lexapro | Escitalopram acts as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or SSRI. It is typicall... Read Reviews | 4 Members | 100% of the time |
| Abstinence | Abstinence is a voluntary forbearance from indulging a desire or appetite for certain... Read Reviews | 4 Members | 0% of the time |
| Xanax | Alprazolam is a short-acting drug in the benzodiazepine class used to treat anxiety d... Read Reviews | 3 Members | 67% of the time |
| Humex | See Humex. | 3 Members | 100% of the time |
