Gambling addiction: Hidden harms

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

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🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This time, we're looking at gambling addiction and the associated harms. We hear from Bianca, a recovering gambling addict, about the deceit which characterised her experiences with betting, and why this is shared by many like here. Then, with Barbara Sahakian from the University of Cambridge, we learn about the biological and environmental factors which may lead to problem gambling, and hear from the perspective of the industry with Dan Waugh of Regulus. Finally, what treatments are out there for gambling addiction? Emma Ryan from the UK's first Primary Care Gambling Service tells us. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:25.0	Today we're investigating the hidden disease tearing families apart.
0:29.0	Games that are proposed for children and adolescents
0:33.0	have a lot to do with the sorts of activities
0:36.0	that you would do while you were gambling.
0:38.0	So it's almost like training them or grooming them to gamble.
0:42.0	As many as 1.3 million Brits are estimated to be problem gamblers,
0:47.0	addicts of an industry which rakes in annual profits of 15 billion pounds per year in the UK alone. My name's James Titco and this week I want to
0:56.7	find out how just one casual flutter leads some people to rack and ruin. How can we help people for whom this has become a problem and are
1:05.7	betting companies taking the situation sufficiently seriously? From Cambridge
1:10.4	University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists.
1:17.0	The UK's Gambling Commission, responsible for regulating the industry in this country,
1:28.2	recently announced that it is making changes to give people the opportunity to gamble safely while protecting people
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