{"id":454988,"date":"2026-02-05T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454988\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T07:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:15:08","slug":"bereaved-mum-backs-calls-for-gambling-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454988\/","title":{"rendered":"Bereaved mum backs calls for gambling regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A mother from Kent whose son took his own life after becoming addicted to gambling is backing calls by MPs to treat gambling as a public health risk in a similar way to drinking and smoking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lesley Wade, from Minster on the Isle of Sheppey, lost her son Aaron Armstrong, whom she describes as &#8220;family orientated&#8221;, &#8220;fun&#8221; and a &#8220;brilliant sportsman,&#8221; in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said it had taken her many years to understand the nature of addiction and that &#8220;the onus wasn&#8217;t all on him&#8221; to stop gambling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Betting and Gaming Council said the &#8220;overwhelming majority&#8221; of people who gamble do so &#8220;safely and responsibly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother from Kent whose son took his own life after becoming addicted to gambling is backing calls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-454988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454988","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=454988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}