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Stories, conversations and tools to explore at your own pace. Whenever you're ready to talk to someone, the helpline is there.
Peer support groups
Groups where people who understand gambling support each other.
Evive community
Free online community of people with lived experience of gambling harm. Connect with people who understand, read stories of hope, and join regular online events.
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Gamblers Anonymous (GA)
Free fellowship meetings, in person and online, where members share their experience and support each other to stop gambling.
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SMART Recovery
Free meetings and self-help tools for changing addictive behavior, including gambling.
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Voices of Problem Gambling Recovery
Advocacy, education and peer support led by people in recovery from gambling harm.
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Recovery Dharma
Peer meetings that use Buddhist practices and principles to support recovery from addiction, including gambling.
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Celebrate Recovery
Peer groups that use Christian principles to support recovery from addiction, including gambling.
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Financial resources
Help with debt and money after gambling.
True Link Financial
A prepaid card with spending controls that can block gambling transactions.
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GamFin
Free financial counseling for people dealing with debt caused by gambling.
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Videos
Talks and personal stories about gambling.
One Day at a Time – Rob Minnick
Free videos about his own recovery from gambling addiction, with practical tips for others.
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TED Talk - Misunderstanding Dopamine
Dr. Cyrus McCandless explains how dopamine drives our behavior, and what goes wrong in addiction.
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TED Talk - How Anticipation Primes the Brain for Gambling Addiction
Dr. Carolyn Hawley on the dangers of gambling and why uncertainty is so addictive.
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TED Talk - The Silent Addiction
Patrick Chester shares his own struggle with gambling, its effect on others, and his steps to recovery.
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TED Talk - Justin Reese Larcombe's Personal Story
How a free $5 bet became an addiction that cost Justin his job, his family and his home, and how he recovered.
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Podcasts
Conversations about gambling, from people who have lived it.
The After Gambling Podcast
Jamie talks with people about life after gambling harm and how they rebuilt it.
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The Broke Girl Society
Christina and her guests, women affected by gambling, talk honestly about living with gambling harm.
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The Modern Meeting
Conversations about addiction and recovery, with a focus on gambling.
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Making Bets in a Burning House
Conversations about gambling harm and the people it affects.
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Books
Reading on gambling, habits and change.
The Easy Way to Quit Gambling by Allen Carr
Allen Carr applies his Easy Way method, first written for smoking, to stopping gambling.
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Addiction By Design by Natasha Dow Schüll
Fifteen years of research in Las Vegas on how machine gambling is designed to keep people playing.
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Atomic Habits by James Clear
A practical guide to building better habits and breaking the ones you want to stop.
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How to Change by Katy Milkman
A behavioral scientist sets out evidence-based ways to make change stick.
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