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History of The
Fellowship of Bettors Anonymous
The fellowship of
Bettors Anonymous is the outgrowth of a group of men and women who, after
many years within another 12-step program, made a decision to form their
own fellowship based on the original "Twelve Steps and Twelve
Traditions" of "Alcoholics Anonymous." Thus on Wednesday May
9, 1990 in Stoneham MA, Bettors Anonymous was officially started through a
group conscience vote. In the following years several more groups were
added and are throughout the state.
These men and women
realized they had a truly baffling history of trouble and misery due to an
obsession to gamble. They concluded from their discussions that in order to
prevent a return to gambling, it was necessary to come to grips with those
serious character flaws that made them problem gamblers to begin with. In
order to accomplish this, they used the spiritual principles of
"Alcoholics Anonymous" which has already been utilized by
thousands of people who had recovered from their compulsive addictions. In
order to maintain their own abstinence, they found it was essential to
carry this message of hope to the compulsive gamblers who still suffer.
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