Responsible Gambling Awareness Week - October 20-26, 2008

Assess Your Gambling Behavior

Finding Help

Who can I call to get help?

If you or someone you know may have a gambling problem, please call the Alberta Health Service’s Addiction Help Line at 1-866-332-2322 .

It’s important to think about your gambling habits and behaviours to ensure that gambling remains an entertaining and safe activity. Spending too much time and money on gambling can lead to problems for gamblers and their families.

Asking yourself questions like the ones contained in this quiz can help you understand your own gambling behaviour and whether or not a problem may be developing. Quizzes similar to this one are available online and/or through gambling treatment agencies. While these quizzes can help identify high-risk behaviour, they are not intended to diagnose problem gambling. In the event your quiz results indicate that you are demonstrating high-risk behaviour and may be developing a gambling problem, you need to take the next step and contact a gambling treatment agency, such as the Alberta Health Service’s Addiction Help Line at 1-866-332-2322.

In most provinces, identification of a gambling problem is based on the Canadian Problem Gambling Index (CPGI). To check your gambling behaviour, please answer the following questions and click the "Assess my Gambling Behaviour" button.

Thinking about the past twelve months:

Have you bet more than you could really afford to lose
- Never
- Sometimes
- Most of the time
- Almost always
Have you needed to gamble with larger amounts of money to get the same feeling of excitement?
- Never
- Sometimes
- Most of the time
- Almost always
When you gambled, did you go back another day to try to win back the money you lost?
- Never
- Sometimes
- Most of the time
- Almost always
Have you borrowed money or sold anything to get more money to gamble?
- Never
- Sometimes
- Most of the time
- Almost always
Have you felt that you might have a problem with gambling?
- Never
- Sometimes
- Most of the time
- Almost always
Has gambling caused you any health problems, including stress or anxiety?
- Never
- Sometimes
- Most of the time
- Almost always
Have people criticized your betting or told you that you had a gambling problem, regardless of whether or not you thought it was true?
- Never
- Sometimes
- Most of the time
- Almost always
Has gambling caused any financial problems for you or your household?
- Never
- Sometimes
- Most of the time
- Almost always
Have you felt guilty about the way you gamble or what happens when you gamble?
- Never
- Sometimes
- Most of the time
- Almost always