BBC Three’s powerful new documentary Gambling: A Game Of Life And Death delves into the serious reality of gambling addiction in the UK. Trigger warning: this article contains reference to suicide.
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In the documentary, we hear the stories of how the addiction took over the lives of two young men, Jack from Sheffield and Harri from north Wales. Both started gambling as teenagers, and both became completely consumed by it despite their best efforts to stop. “He felt that he would always be controlled by this, and he was not be able to live his life as he would want, and he despised himself, really, for not being able to be free of it, because he was told that it was all his fault, not by us, but by the culture,” says Jack’s mother in the film.In the wake of Jack’s death, his parents discovered a wealth of research into the suicide risk associated with gambling.
Four years after Jack’s death, an inquest into gambling regulations found that the state had failed to protect Jack’s right to life, and that the government failings in informing the public of the risks of gambling been “woeful”.
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