Questions and AnswersAbout the Problem of Compulsive
Gambling and the Bettors Anonymous Program

What is compulsive gambling?

We of the fellowship of Bettors Anonymous accept compulsive gambling as an illness, progressive in its nature, which can never be cured, but can be arrested. Before coming to Bettors Anonymous, many compulsive gamblers thought of themselves as morally weak or at times just plain 'no good'. The Bettors Anonymous concept is that compulsive gamblers are really very sick people who can recover if they will follow to the best of their ability a simple program that has proved successful for thousands of other men and women with a gambling or compulsive gambling problem.

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