Compulsive Gambling

Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski is the Founder and Medical Director of Gateway Rehabilitation Center, a not-for-profit drug and alcohol treatment system in western Pennsylvania, cited by Forbes magazine as one of the 12 best drug and alcohol treatment centers in the United States. Dr. Twerski studied at Marquette University Medical School and completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute. He has served as Clinical Director of the Department of Psychiatry, St. Francis Hospital and currently is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Twerski has written more than 50 books to date, including Life s Too Short; I d Like To Call For Help But I Don t Know The Number; Waking Up Just In Time; When Do The Good Things Start?; Generation To Generation: Personal Recollections Of A Chassidic Legacy; Let Us Make Man: Self-Esteem Through Jewishness; The Shame Borne in Silence: Spouse Abuse in the Jewish Community and, most recently, Dear Rabbi, Dear Doctor and From Pulpit to Couch. Dr. Twerski has established a rehabilitation center, Shaar Hatikvah, in Jerusalem.