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Cost of living: Why are more women turning to gambling?

Cost of living:  Why are more women turning to gambling?
Mar 20, 2023 · 15m 36s

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...

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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.

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.

Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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