From The Classic Collection:

Deadly Odds: Recovery from Compulsive Gambling

Ken Estes and Mike Brubaker, Fireside/Parkside, Simon & Schuster, N. Y., 1990, updated in 1994.

ISBN: 0671758993

Format: Paperback, 237pp

Pub Date: Dec 1993

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group

      Available thru Brubaker and Associates and the Arizona Council on Compulsive Gambling, as well as at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, B Dalton and Borders.

From The Current Collection:

Futures at Stake: Youth, Gambling and Society

Edited by Howard Shaffer, Matthew Hall et al., Foreword by Thomas N. Cummings, University of Nevada Press, 2003

The Gambling Study Series: Series Editor William R. Eadington

Product Details:

Hardcover: 344 pages

Publisher: University of Nevada Press (July, 2003)

Language: English

ISBN: 087417368X

Though limited in terms of help with direct practice, the many contributors to this effort make it worth having as an addition to the problem gambling library. It is one of very few books available today that focus on adolescent gambling. Contributors including Henry Lesieur, I. Nelson Rose, William Eadington, and Dewey Jacobs make solid contributions to the facts and implications of youth gambling. A solid representation from the gaming industry lends to views from stakeholders that include social policy, the law, research, clinical care, social work and mathematics. Zitzow’s chapter on Native American Gambling is tough. It doesn’t focus entirely on youth, but his contribution to this book does make one of the few serious contributions to gambling issues among First Nation’s Peoples.

From The Recovering Community:

Born to Lose: Memoirs of a Compulsive Gambler

Bill Lee, Hazelden Foundation, Center City Minnesota, 2005

Product Details

Paperback: 256 pages

Publisher: Hazelden (April 1, 2005)

Language: English

ISBN: 1592851533

This personal story of a recovering gambler is smartly and clearly stated. Mr. Lee brings the reader into his world of desperation and struggle with his efforts to recover from his gambling disorder. He speaks in detail about his close work with Gamblers Anonymous, and the financial and legal issues he faced as a son, father and businessman fighting with a gambling problem and finding his way to recovery.

From The Journals:

The Electronic Journal from Toronto, Canada can be found at: www.camh.net/egambling. This wonderful easy to use journal is a real gift to those interested in peer-reviewed literature that has practical implications to our field and includes current research efforts from around the world.

 Though the entire journal is well worth reading I have highlighted some particular articles that I think you will find very interesting and helpful.

 1.   “Generational Comparison Among Women Pathological Gamblers,” Andria Botzet.

·A new research effort with older female gamblers, a rarely studied group. No serious surprises but some very interesting data.

2.   “Double Trouble: The Lived Experience of Problem and Pathological Gambling in Later Life,” Nixon, Solowoniuk, Hagen and Williams.

  ·A rare, interview-based study on older adult pathological gamblers. Though sample sizes are required to be small, the specific statements provided are very informative.

3.   The “Clinical Corner” includes a well written case presentation about a common confounder and serious concern to the gambling treatment field - the bi-polar disorder. What came first? What is the primary diagnosis? And what is the best way to treat? Those and many other questions are addressed in this useful article.