{"id":175390,"date":"2025-09-28T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175390\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:02:08","slug":"1-800-gambler-hotline-to-be-discontinued-kiro-7-news-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/175390\/","title":{"rendered":"1-800-GAMBLER hotline to be discontinued \u2013 KIRO 7 News Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">The National Council on Problem Gambling Helpline says the 1-800-GAMBLING number to help those affected by gambling will be discontinued on September 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">The Washington State Gambling Commission asks that callers now dial 1-800-547-6133, which will direct to the State Problem Gambling Program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">Responsible gambling messaging is required by Washington State Code and this number offers an option following the soon-to-be-discontinued national hotline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncpgambling.org\/ncpg\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ncpgambling.org\/ncpg\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">visit ncpgambling.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Council on Problem Gambling Helpline says the 1-800-GAMBLING number to help those affected by gambling will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-175390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}