Overcoming Gambling Addiction

Overcoming Gambling Addiction is a Health & Wellness course designed to help students understand gambling behavior, reduce risk, and build practical recovery skills. A practical recovery course with Professor Samuel Reed, this class gives students clear tools for managing urges, protecting finances, repairing relationships, and creating a stable long-term recovery plan.

Build Lasting Recovery From Gambling Addiction

• Understand how gambling addiction affects the brain, behavior, emotions, and decision-making
• Identify personal triggers, risky situations, false beliefs, and patterns that keep gambling active
• Create practical safeguards for money, access, accountability, and daily routines
• Develop relapse prevention skills and healthier support systems for long-term recovery

A structured Health & Wellness course for Overcoming Gambling Addiction with practical recovery steps and real-life prevention tools.

This course begins with the foundations of recovery, helping students understand what gambling addiction is, how it develops, and why the cycle of urges, betting, losing, and chasing can become so difficult to stop. Students will examine shame, secrecy, and avoidance while learning how to take an honest inventory without getting stuck in self-blame.

As the course progresses, Professor Samuel Reed guides students through identifying triggers, high-risk situations, gambling thoughts, cognitive distortions, and emotional patterns tied to stress, boredom, loneliness, and impulse behavior. The lessons focus on practical skills students can use immediately, including managing urges without acting on them, building a personal stop-gambling plan, and replacing gambling with healthier routines.

Overcoming Gambling Addiction also addresses the real-world systems that support recovery, including financial safeguards, money accountability, self-exclusion, blocking tools, environmental barriers, and trusted support. Students will learn how to talk with family members, partners, and supporters, begin repairing trust after gambling-related harm, and make realistic decisions around debt, consequences, treatment options, and support groups.

By the end of this Health & Wellness course, students will have a clearer understanding of their gambling pattern, a practical recovery plan, and the skills to respond to urges, setbacks, and life stress with greater stability. They will leave better prepared to protect their future, rebuild trust, and maintain long-term recovery with confidence and structure.