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The Escalation Cycle: Recreational to Disordered
The recreational → at-risk → problem → disordered spectrum, the tolerance/chasing engine, and why escalation is gradual and easy to miss from inside.
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Overview
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Almost no one starts intending to develop a problem. Harm usually arrives through a gradual drift — more often, more money, more chasing — that's hard to see from the inside.
This lesson maps that spectrum, from recreational to disordered, so you and your students can recognize the slide while there's still lots of room to step back.
Outcomes
- Name the four stages of the escalation spectrum.
- Identify tolerance and loss-chasing as drivers of the slide.
- Explain why the Pathways Model means there is no single problem-gambler type.
- Walk a scenario along the gradient and label each stage.
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