Pandemic lockdowns and the cost-of-living crisis have driven more people to gambling to help ease financial struggles – with support helplines this year receiving a record-breaking number of calls for help.
© Imagebridge Gambling dice and chips are seen on the keyboard in this illustration picture, June 5, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
A third of those calls are now from women.
On the Sky News Daily, Kimberley Leonard speaks to former gambler Lisa Walker about her story, who now works as a peer support worker for the charity BetKnowMore and runs their women-only programme New Beginnings.
Also, Lisa Patton, a treatment service manager at the charity GamCare, explains how people get into gambling and what’s being done to help.
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Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Philly Beaumont