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Questions
and Answers:
ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF COMPULSIVE GAMBLING
AND THE BETTORS ANONYMOUS RECOVERY PROGRAM
Can a compulsive gambler ever gamble normally again?
No. The first bet to a problem gambler is like the first small drink to an
alcoholic. Sooner or later he or she falls back into the same old
destructive pattern.
Once a person has crossed the invisible line into irresponsible
uncontrolled gambling he or she never seems to regain control. After
abstaining a few months some of our members have tried some small bet
experimentation, always with disastrous results. The old obsession
inevitably returned.
Our Bettors Anonymous experience seems to point to these alternatives: to
gamble, risking progressive deterioration or not to gamble, and develop a
better way of life.
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