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Addiction Secret: My Parents’ Gambling Addiction Is Ruining My Life
Part 2: My family’s gambling addiction makes life unbearable for us, and now we are homeless.
Do you have a gambling problem? Is your family like mine?
Addiction is a treatable disease, and treatment works. Seek treatment if gambling negatively affects your life.
My name is Katie, and here is my story.
I never thought I would be looking at poverty or for a room in the area of town I am looking for now. By the end of this month, I must leave home and the neighborhood I have stayed all my life.
I promised myself. I will never do what my parents did to their parents, me, or my children. I cannot change what they did to me, but it is painful. Now, I need to look out for myself.
