{"id":340083,"date":"2026-03-11T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340083\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:05:08","slug":"gambling-addict-from-dunstable-lost-250000-but-found-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340083\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling addict from Dunstable lost \u00a3250,000, but found rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hart said that it was only after going to Gordon Moody that he worked out he had lost more than \u00a3250,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also realised he had been heavily targeted by gambling advertising, which he described as &#8220;a real big problem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You cannot go anywhere without seeing gambling, you cannot listen to the radio without hearing gambling adverts, and you can&#8217;t even get on a bus without seeing gambling adverts on the billboards,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I suffered in silence for a long time where I was living from pay cheque to pay cheque and all my money went on gambling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was hiding my gambling and I did not want anyone to know how much I was losing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is when it becomes a problem. It was not enjoyable. It was kind of if I don&#8217;t win this bet then the bills are not getting paid.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hart said that it was only after going to Gordon Moody that he worked out he had lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-340083","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\/340083","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=340083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}