SMART Recovery® Attends Compulsive Gambling Conference
bv Rich Dowling, MA, LPC, MAC
SMART Recovery® was represented at the 8th Annual NCRG Conference on Gambling and Addiction: Responsible Gaming, Regulation and Recoery: Testing Conventional Wisdom.
The conference, co-sponsored by Harvard Medical School and the National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG), was held November 11-12, 2007 at the Paris Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Say what? A compulsive gambling conference in the gambling capital of the world? Following my initial surprise, I found the location to be very appropriate to the purpose.
A description of SMART Recovery® was given in the conference brochure and a room was provided for a SMART Recovery® "Meeting." Six people took advantage of the opportunity to learn about and discuss the SMART Recovery@ model and its application to addictions, including gambling. The participants included individuals from South Africa, England, Jamaica, Las Vegas, and Wisconsin. Those interested in starting groups were referred to SMART Recovery@ Headquarters and www.smartrecovery.org for further information.
The conference was top notch in every way, providing attendees with the latest research outcomes for preventing and treating compulsive gambling disorders with CBT showing the most promise. The organizers are to be commended!! Additional information can be found at: www.divisiononaddictions.org/instiute and www.ncrg.org.
As published in the SMART Recovery® News & Views.
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