Women in Recovery from Gambling Addiction- Podcast Episodes While gambling addiction is often incorrectly viewed as a 'male problem', many women develop addictions to gambling.  We are proud to have had three inspirational women in recovery on The Problem Gambling Podcast, so far and would love to hear from more women who want to share their recovery stories.  This short clip from our interview with Stacey Goodwin, hits the nail on the head, regarding one of the most common fallacies which drives gambling addiction - the dream that a 'big [...]
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Hidden Problem Campaign - First Quarter Review ​On the 26th of April, this year, Extern Problem Gambling were proud to launch the ‘Hidden Problem’ campaign with the support of campaign ambassadors Oisín McConville and Niall McNamee.  We were in a position to begin providing a free helpline and online counselling service to anyone on the island of Ireland.  Backed by a large-scale awareness raising media campaign, we were inundated with calls and emails from people seeking help for themselves or for l [...]
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How to Stop Gambling Most of the people who contact our service are interested in one thing: stopping gambling completely.  The vast majority of people we work with have made numerous attempts to quit gambling and, unfortunately, relapsed.  So, just like you, they have realised that they cannot gamble in a moderate or recreational way.  Having an unhealthy/addictive relationship with gambling is not a problem - as long as you don't gamble.  The real problem is repeatedly convincing yourself that [...]
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How Can Gambling Be Addictive? One of the biggest issues with problem gambling (Gambling Disorder/Compulsive Gambling/Pathological Gambling/Gambling Addiction) - apart from the fact that it clearly has way too many names - is the lack of understanding that exists about how a person can become addicted to a behaviour in the first place.  Because there is no addictive substance, like alcohol or nicotine, involved - most people believe that stopping gambling should be as easy as steering clear of the Betting Shop or deletin [...]
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Gambling Regulation in the new Programme for Government Today, I wrote to the members of the Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Green Party negotiating teams, to ask that they ensure that Gambling Regulation is part of the new Programme for Government.  "I am writing to you, as a member of [your party's] negotiating team, to ask that you and your colleagues please ensure that the establishment of a Gambling Regulatory Authority is part of the new Programme for Government.   Both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have committed to this in the [...]
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