{"id":281281,"date":"2026-02-05T01:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/281281\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T01:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:41:07","slug":"bereaved-mum-backs-calls-for-gambling-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/281281\/","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":281282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-281281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}