Gambling Addiction: The Problem, the Pain, and the Path to Recovery

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Thousands of people with very different backgrounds and personalities are afflicted with a benumbing addiction to gambling. The author, now freed from his own enslavement to gambling, exposes the causes of the illness, describes its progressive stages, and shows how it changes people. Using his own experience and a tested, biblically-based strategy, he leads readers to the spiritual transformation and the practical program required for release from the addiction. This book also provides three case studies of individuals freed from the addiction.


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Thousands of people with very different backgrounds and personalities are afflicted with a benumbing addiction to gambling. The author, now freed from his own enslavement to gambling, exposes the causes of the illness, describes its progressive stages, and shows how it changes people. Using his own experience and a tested, biblically-based strategy, he leads readers to the spiritual transformation and the practical program required for release from the addiction. This book also provides three case studies of individuals freed from the addiction.


About the Author: Dr. John M. Eades is a former therapist and is a twenty-year veteran in the field of drug and alcohol addiction treatment, where he worked as Director of Chemical Dependency Treatment Centers for several major hospitals. He is also a certified gambling addiction specialist. He currently is a Pastor at Shiloh United Methodist Church in Shelbyville, TN. He has published 4 books and has written articles for Fort Worth Star, the Biloxi-Sun Times, The Mississippi Press, The Washington Post, The Clarion Ledger, and Christianity Today Magazine. John and his wife, Karen, reside in Winchester, Tennessee.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781569553428
  • Publisher: Gospel Light Publications
  • Publication date: 4/28/2003
  • Pages: 167
  • Product dimensions: 5.26 (w) x 8.12 (h) x 0.47 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 9
1. Misery Among the Magnolias: My Story 11
2. How Did This Happen to Me? An Accidental Illness 21
3. A Downward Spiral: The Stages of Gambling Addiction 27
4. An Equal-Opportunity Illness: What Kind of People Become Addicts? 35
5. From Hero to Zero: My Story 41
6. Who Is That Person in the Mirror? Gambling Changes Us 51
7. Miracle on Boswell Road: My Story 59
8. Filling Our God-Shaped Vacuum: We Need a Spiritual Transformation 69
9. The Pathway to Recovery: The Story of the Prodigal Son 79
10. The Journey Back Home: Embarking on a Program for Recovery 87
11. A Call to Churches: Starting a Five-Stage Recovery Program 111
12. Becoming Who God Wants You to Be: Your Own Personal Easter 115
Three Case Studies: Louise, Frank, and Lance 131
Notes 167
About the Author 168

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