Following a number of delays, the UK authorities’s new overview on playing is anticipated to be launched later this week, amid mounting issues about playing’s hurt on folks’s funds and psychological well being.
The trade has dramatically modified for the reason that Playing Act was introduced in, in 2005 – most importantly the booming on-line market, pushed by the ubiquity of smartphones.
Clinicians and charities say customers have been failed by the dearth of regulation. A kind of is 27-year-old Lewis who has misplaced £100,000 to playing, relapsed 12 occasions, and at his lowest level contemplated suicide.
Newsnight’s Anna Collinson met with him.
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