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Personal Narrative: Community Gambling Anonymous Program
For my twelve step program I chose to go to a gambling anonymous program. I chose this because this I did not believe this was something that most people thank of or effected by. I was so wrong about that. I found out that in this community Gambling addiction is a huge problem that effects many families and lives in our community. This is largely due to our community being impacted by Casinos. It was difficult to find the exact number of people effected and seeking treatment in the local Gambling anonymous program do to it being and open meeting. Most of the people come and go as they see fit to meetings. I was told the meeting I attended was small with less than a dozen people.

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