{"id":229852,"date":"2025-10-28T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229852\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:57:09","slug":"from-10k-to-10p-gambling-addiction-in-the-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229852\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u00a310k to 10p: Gambling addiction in the armed forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MoD acknowledged there were more gambling problems among military personnel compared to civilians, which is why they&#8217;re working with Swansea University to conduct further research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the past three years, the MoD has provided access to NHS treatment through the Primary Care Gambling Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Serving personnel can self-refer or can be referred by a clinician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In what is thought to be a UK first, a new arrangement is being set up with the specialist NHS service the Northern Gambling Clinic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MoD says it will provide another route for care and treatment for personnel with severe or complex gambling problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It says in future there will be greater sharing of information and the armed forces will work more closely with the NHS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Regarding stigma, the MoD says they recognise this is a significant barrier and are working to ensure confidentiality is maintained and that seeking help is seen as a sign of strength, not weakness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MoD acknowledged there were more gambling problems among military personnel compared to civilians, which is why they&#8217;re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-229852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}