Gamblers Anonymous organisers around the country say they are alarmed at how many teenagers are turning up to meetings sometimes brought by their parents as they battle online gambling addictions.
Key points:
- Gambling anonymous groups are reporting an increase in young men attending
- A parliamentarycommittee is investigating theimpact of online phone gambling on the community
- A trauma surgeon is assembling a coalition of doctors to campaign for tighter gambling industryregulation
And they warn some members of this new, young wave of addicts are committing suicide without friends and family having any idea of their addiction to mobile phone betting apps.
Katie said she had not seen anything like it in her 20 yearsfacilitating Gamblers Anonymous …
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