Will include online chat support and mobile phone text support.
The B.C. Lottery Corporation reported net income of $1.4 billion from casinos and lotteries in the 2017-18 fiscal year, based on record revenue of $3.3 billion.
Almost 2,400 people were referred to counselling by the provinces crisis line for problem gamblers last year, but only half actually attended.
The current crisis-line service provider 211 British Columbia Services Society fields 3,243 calls a year, or 62 per week, and referred 2,373 people to a problem gambling counsellor.
According to the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branchs annual report, 1,269 people received those services…
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