Gambling is all around you. Betting on sporting events, wagering on-line, playing cards for money, playing the horses, and buying lottery tickets are all forms of gambling.

Per a recent survey conducted by NYS OASAS, two-thirds of adults engaged in one or more gambling activities during the past year. And approximately 5% of adults experienced problem gambling in the past year and may be in need of treatment services.

Insight House offers professional, certified gambling treatment services for those in need. By specializing in and treating issues related specifically to an individual’s compulsive or problem gambling, we can assist in the recovery process. We offer counseling and support services for both problem gamblers and their loved ones. All calls and services are confidential.

Help is available. Please call 724-5168 today.

Compulsive or pathological gambling is a progressive impulse control disorder in which an individual has a psychological, uncontrollable preoccupation with an urge to gamble.

As compulsive gambling progresses, consequences are experienced in the psychological, social, vocational and family domains.

Compulsive gambling is further categorized by a chronic and progressive inability to resist the impulse to gamble.

Pathological gambling was first diagnosed and recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980.

Here are four questions you can use to help identify if you or a loved one has a gambling problem:
• Have you ever borrowed money in order to gamble?
• Have you ever thought you might have a gambling problem or have you ever been told that you might ?
• Have you been untruthful about the extent of your gambling or hid it from others ?
• Have you ever tried (unsuccessfully) to stop or cut back on how much or how frequently you gamble?
• Have you ever tried (unsuccessfully) to stop or cut back on how much or how frequently you gamble?

Answering yes to one or more of these questions is suggestive of a problem needing further assessment. If you are interested in services for yourself or a loved one, please call us today in confidence at (315) 724-5168.