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2000 Volunteer Leader Training Guide
Families and Gambling: What Are Some Facts?
Handout 3

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For the Gambler: Gamblers Anonymous Twenty Questions

  1. Have you ever lost time from work due to gambling?
     

  2. Has gambling ever made your home life unhappy?
     

  3. Has gambling affected your reputation?
     

  4. Have you ever felt remorse after gambling?
     

  5. Do you ever gamble to get money with which to pay debts or otherwise solve financial difficulties?
     

  6. Does gambling cause a decrease in your ambition or efficiency?
     

  7. After losing do you ever feel you must return as soon as possible and win back your losses?
     

  8. After a win do you have a strong urge to return and win more?
     

  9. Do you often gamble until your last dollar is gone?
     

  10. Do you ever borrow to finance your gambling?
     

  11. Have you ever sold anything to finance your gambling?
     

  12. Are you reluctant to use "gambling money" for normal expenditures?
     

  13. Does gambling make you careless of the welfare of yourself and your family?
     

  14. Do you ever gamble longer than you had planned?
     

  15. Have you ever gambled to escape worry or trouble?
     

  16. Have you ever committed or considered committing an illegal act to finance gambling?
     

  17. Does gambling cause you to have difficulty in sleeping?
     

  18. Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create within you an urge to gamble?
     

  19. Do you ever have an urge to celebrate any good fortune by a few hours of gambling?
     

  20. Have you ever considered self-destruction as result of your gambling?

Gamblers Anonymous has twenty questions which it asks new members. Compulsive gamblers usually answer "yes" to at least 7 of the 20 questions.

Source: Gamblers Anonymous.

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