{"id":346980,"date":"2025-12-13T20:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346980\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:01:19","slug":"gambling-addiction-the-struggle-for-support-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346980\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling addiction: The struggle for support | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sky-news-daily\/id951048357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\ud83d\udc49 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48<\/a>        <\/p>\n<p>Kiki Marriott is one of the thousands of people in the UK whose life has spiralled out of control because of gambling addiction. <\/p>\n<p>However, research has shown that while people from ethnic minorities like Kiki are actually less likely to gamble than their white counterparts &#8211; they are more likely to suffer harm from gambling and less likely to seek help.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this? And what can be done to help those most in need feel more comfortable with getting support?<\/p>\n<p>Niall is joined by Kiki and Sky News correspondent Emma Birchley.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: This podcast contains references to addiction, substance abuse and suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Tom Gillespie<br \/>Editor: Mike Bovill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udc49 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app \ud83d\udc48 Kiki Marriott is one of the thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-346980","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}