Southern Arizona Gamblers Anonymous
“The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop gambling”

Upcoming Area 3D Events
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Tucson Mini Conference
Streams in The Desert Lutheran Church
5360 E Pima Street, Tucson, AZ
Come early for the Friday Night Mixer
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Friday, May 16 - Sunday May 18, 2025
Women in Recovery Retreat 2025
Emanuel Pines Retreat Camp, Prescott, AZ
COST: $155 (includes lodging and meals)
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Thursday, June 19 - Sunday, June 22, 2025
Unity in the Pines Campout
Woods Canyon Lake, Payson AZ - Crook Campground, Loop B
COST: $45.00— Camp spot included
$25.00—No camping
Meals $5 for each meal-Sat AM, Sat PM and Sun AM
Come join us for a weekend of recovery - camping/hiking/food/fun
History
The fellowship of Gamblers Anonymous is the outgrowth of a chance meeting between two men during the month of January in 1957. These men had a truly baffling history of trouble and misery due to an obsession to gamble. They began to meet regularly and as the months passed neither had returned to gambling.
They concluded from their discussions that in order to prevent a relapse it was necessary to bring about certain character changes within themselves. In order to accomplish this, they used for a guide certain spiritual principles which had been utilized by thousands of people who were recovering from other compulsive addictions. The word spiritual can be said to describe those characteristics of the human mind that represent the highest and finest qualities such as kindness, generosity, honesty and humility. Also, in order to maintain their own abstinence they felt that it was vitally important that they carry the message of hope to other compulsive gamblers.
As a result of favorable publicity by a prominent newspaper columnist and TV commentator, the first group meeting of Gamblers Anonymous was held on Friday, September 13, 1957, in Los Angeles, California. Since that time, the fellowship has grown steadily and groups are flourishing throughout the world.
The Recovery and Unity Programs
Here are the steps which are a program of recovery:
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We admitted we were powerless over gambling - that our lives had become unmanageable.
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Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to a normal way of thinking and living.
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Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of this Power of our own understanding.
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Made a searching and fearless moral and financial inventory of ourselves.
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Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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Were entirely ready to have these defects of character removed.
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Humbly asked God (of our understanding) to remove our shortcomings.
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Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
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Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
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Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
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Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
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Having made an effort to practice these principles in all our affairs, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive gamblers.
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In order to maintain unity our experience has shown that:
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Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon group unity.
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Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
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The only requirement for Gamblers Anonymous membership is a desire to stop gambling.
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Each group should be self-governing except in matters affecting other groups or Gamblers Anonymous as a whole.
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Gamblers Anonymous has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the compulsive gambler who still suffers.
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Gamblers Anonymous ought never endorse, finance or lend the Gamblers Anonymous name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
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Every Gamblers Anonymous Group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
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Gamblers Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
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Gamblers Anonymous, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
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Gamblers Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the Gamblers Anonymous name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
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Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, television and Internet.
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Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of the Gamblers Anonymous program, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
The 12 Step Program is fundamentally based on ancient spiritual principles and rooted in sound medical therapy. The best recommendation for the program is the fact that "it works."
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Gamblers Anonymous would like to indicate that we are not soliciting members. Our intention is to highlight that gambling for certain individuals is an illness called "compulsive gambling." Gamblers Anonymous provides the message that there is an alternative to the destruction of compulsive gambling and this alternative is the Gamblers Anonymous program.
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Our ranks are filled with members who have recovered from the illness by stopping gambling and attaining a normal way of life. These members remain ready to help any individual who passes through the Gamblers Anonymous door.
Contact Us
Gamblers Anonymous
International Service Office
1306 Monte Vista Avenue
Suite 5
Upland, CA 91786
Phone (909) 931-9056
Fax (909) 931-9059
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GA Meeting List for Southern Arizona
Sunday
GA - Streams in the Desert Lutheran Church, 5360 E. Pima, Room A, Tucson
4:00 to 5:00 PM (OP) Therapy Sharing, Recovery and Unity Steps
Welcomes Special Speakers (Corner of Pima & Woodland, 1 block west of Craycroft)
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Monday
GA - Christ in King Episcopal Church, 2800 W Ina Rd, Tucson
7:00 to 8:00 PM (OP) Meet in the library off the courtyard.
GAM ANON - Christ in King Episcopal Church, 2800 W Ina Rd, Tucson
7:00 to 8:00 PM (OP) Meet downstairs in the Children's Church Room
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Thursday
GA - Streams in the Desert Lutheran Church, 5360 E. Pima, Tucson
7:00 to 8:00 PM (OP) (Corner of Pima & Woodland, 1 block west of Craycroft).
Meeting in Classroom "A". 3rd Thursday of the month is a step meeting
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Friday
GA - Christ in King Episcopal Church, 2800 W Ina Rd, Tucson
7:00 to 8:00 PM (OP) Meet in the library off the courtyard.
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Saturday
GA - Zoom
9:15 to 11:00 AM (OP)
Meeting ID: 943 4906 1073
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GA - GREEN VALLEY
St. Francis Episcopal Church, 600 S. La Canada Drive, Green Valley
9:00 to 10:00 AM (CL) Meets in Conference Room
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All meetings are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted
To learn more about GA, visit the National Web site
https://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/
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To learn more about GAM-ANON, visit the National Web site https://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/content/gam-anon-help-family-friends
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