How You Can Tell If You or Someone You Know
Has a Gambling Problem

• Do you spend much of your time gambling, thinking about or planning to gamble?
• Have you borrowed money in order to gamble?
• Have you lied about how much time or money you have spent or lost gambling?
• Do you feel restless or irritable if you are not able to gamble?
• Do you continue to gamble even though you promised yourself or others that you would stop?
• Do you gamble to escape problems or uncomfortable feelings?
• Do you take time away from family activities, job or school in order to gamble?
• Have you ever written a bad check or engaged in other illegal activities to get money for gambling or pay off gambling debt?
• Do you return to gambling time after time to try and win back losses?
• Have you tried to control, cut back or stop gambling without success?

If you answered yes to even 2 or 3 of the above questions, you may be at risk for gambling problems