{"id":490267,"date":"2026-06-09T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490267\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:01:25","slug":"sports-gambling-addiction-lost-haywards-heath-man-100k-in-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490267\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports gambling addiction lost Haywards Heath man \u00a3100k in decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nash eventually called the charity GamCare’s National Gambling Helpline, external<\/a>, and was put in touch with Breakeven, external<\/a>, a Sussex-based NHS organisation.<\/p>\n

“Tournaments like the World Cup are brilliant,” said Mark Weiss, from GamCare.<\/p>\n

“But for some people the intensity and opportunities to bet can make gambling harder to manage.<\/p>\n

“Following the Men’s World Cup in 2022, the National Gambling Helpline saw an 11% increase in contacts.<\/p>\n

“This year’s World Cup is the biggest in history, with 104 matches across June and July, often several games a day.”<\/p>\n

A Betting and Gaming Council spokesperson said: “The evidence simply doesn’t show that licensed gambling advertising causes problem gambling.<\/p>\n

What it does show is that illegal operators now account for almost half of all gambling advertising and are on course to overtake the regulated sector within two years.<\/p>\n

“At the same time, black market betting is forecast to hit more than \u00a333bn by 2028, with almost one in five pounds staked online going to illegal operators. <\/p>\n

“The priority should be keeping customers in the regulated market, where there are mandatory age checks, safer gambling tools, deposit limits, online monitoring of play, self-exclusion schemes and funding for research, prevention and treatment. <\/p>\n

“The more customers who move to the illegal market, the greater the risk of harm, because there are no protections. That’s why regulation must be evidence-led.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nash eventually called the charity GamCare’s National Gambling Helpline, external, and was put in touch with Breakeven, external,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-490267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490267","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=490267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}