Pink Sneakers Productions is currently casting for TLC’s new documentary
series tentatively titled, "Life Chronicles." Each episode documents the
day-to-day lives of people affected by different life experiences. One of
our episodes will focus on gambling addiction. We are currently looking
for people who have been directly or indirectly (family member of, etc)
affected by gambling addiction.

These are unique and sensitive topics to be covered through a true, documentary style format to inform and educate our viewers while

Child Gambling Protection Project is an organization whose main goal is to develop, maintain and improve software to block child gambling and prevent addictive online gaming. Currently, we focus on poker gambling by blocking access to downloadable software on the child`s computer as well as to poker websites.

We focus on providing parents with a tool to help prevent teenagers` addictive online gambling behavior. There are two purposes of our anti gambling software: preventive and reinforcing.

If someone told me 27 years ago when I made my first wager that when you are 39 years old you will lose everything and be in place where there are no freedoms, I would have told them that they were crazy because I am an intelligent person and I can "control" my gambling. The fact of the matter is the gambling took over my life and ruined it and ruined the lives of my family. It is an insidious addiction; I did things that no rational person would do.

Dr. Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., is a pioneering voice in the field of addiction.

My name is Marilyn Lancelot and I am a recovering compulsive gambler. I visited my first casino in 1984 at the age of 53. For seven years, my boyfriend and I made the four-hour trek from Yuma, AZ to Laughlin, NV every weekend. I learned early on how to lie to my family and friends and how to sign my employers' name to company checks. I considered suicide and planned it so it would like an accident.