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Recovery Programmes |
Currently, in South Africa, gamblers have access to the following recovery programmes:
The NRGP or National Responsible Gambling Programme.
This industry sponsored programme provides :
- Telephone counseling line 0800-006-008
- Out-patient treatment
- In-patient treatment
- Family support and intervention training
- Debt management
e-mail : counsellor@responsiblegambling.co.za
web site: www.responsiblegambling.co.za
GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS
This12 Step Program is based on the spiritual principles as outlined by the founder’s of Alcoholics Anonymous. These have been handed down through the ages and their best recommendation is that "they work".
Gambler’s Anonymous (GA), like other 12 step programmes, do not solicit members. Their aim is to offer help to those people who become compulsive gamblers and to provide an alternative to this destructive disease.
GA is populated by members who have recovered from compulsive gambling by successfully stopping gambling, and who, by attending regular meetings, have resumed normal life. Once they have recovered, they are committed to helping others who need help and who come through the GA door.
For further information, e-mail isomain@gamblersanonymous.org.
The GA Twelve Steps:
- We admitted we were powerless over gambling - that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to a normal way of thinking and living.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of this Power of our own understanding.
- Made a searching and fearless moral and financial inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have these defects of character removed.
- Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power, praying only for knowledge of This Higher Power’s will for us and the strength to carry that out.
- Having made an effort to practice these principles in all our affairs, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive gamblers.
The 12 Step Program is based on the spiritual principles as outlined by the founder’s of Alcoholics Anonymous. These have been handed down through the ages and their best recommendation is that "they work".
Gambler’s Anonymous (GA), like other 12 step programmes, do not solicit members. Their aim is to offer help to those people who become compulsive gamblers and to provide an alternative to this destructive disease.
GA is populated by members who have recovered from compulsive gambling by successfully stopping gambling, and who, by attending regular meetings, have resumed normal life. Once they have recovered, they are committed to helping others who need help and who come through the GA door.
For further information, e-mail isomain@gamblersanonymous.org. |
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