{"id":383039,"date":"2026-01-02T06:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/383039\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:08:22","slug":"gambling-awareness-highlighted-locally-northernsound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/383039\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling awareness highlighted locally | NorthernSound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first step in helping with a gambling addiction is accepting that there is a problem.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to Co Cavan gambling counsellor, Darragh King from Teach Oscail in Cavan Town.<\/p>\n<p>Darragh says recovery is a gradual process, but it is absolutely possible.<\/p>\n<p>He says people do recover and you can live your life, but it can be daunting reaching out at the very start.<\/p>\n<p>Darragh says there is still a lot of stigma around problem gambling and that should not be the case.<\/p>\n<p>The local counsellor says no one is immune to developing a problem of a gambling problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first step in helping with a gambling addiction is accepting that there is a problem. That&#8217;s according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-383039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383039","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=383039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}