How do I know if my family member has a gambling problem? How to react if the bank account goes red, squandered to racing, bingo, slot machines, scratch cards, online gambling? What to do if the gambler does not admit to having a problem but creditors knock on the door every day?
There are now more than 30 million unknown victims of gambling in the US.
They are victims because they pay the price, sometimes devastating, of the destructive actions of another person: the gambler.
They are unknown because, although they are part of a social phenomenon of which much is talked about, very little is said about them and very little is done to help them.
These unknown victims are the family members of the pathological gambler. This book is for them: getting out of the destructive spiral of pathological gambling is possible.