#gambling-addiction

#gambling-addiction

I felt the need to gamble to try and get something back, this has led to me losing £93,000 to try and recoup the money I paid into Mowle's bank account, going into a deep state of depression and having to seek help via medication and counselling.

Gambling has taken over the country. But it's not just sports betting that's emptying wallets. Now, the rise of prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi to bet on almost any conceivable outcome, ranging from presidential elections to military interventions to celebrity dramas to the return of our lord and savior Jesus Christ. The nature of the wagers open up whole new avenues of insider trading and other dishonest practices.

Because of those injuries, his compensation was originally placed under the control of a trust. By 2017, however, he was assessed as being able to manage his own financial affairs. From that point on, Hampton, who was married to him at the time, was authorised to help oversee his accounts. Prosecutors told the court she abused that position almost immediately.

'Write what you know' is a familiar maxim for novelists. Perhaps this is why, when Dostoevsky was faced with the challenge of writing a novel within 30 days, he wrote The Gambler. He, too, like his protagonist, was addicted to roulette and was no stranger to debt. In fact, the novel writing wager was a high-stakes venture. If he failed,

An NHS manager who siphoned off more than 120,000 from his trust, primarily to fuel a gambling addiction, has been handed a prison sentence. Alec Gandy, a senior operational manager at Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust, orchestrated a scheme involving fake temporary worker accounts, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) revealed. Gandy created fictitious roles for his friend, Matthew Lane, as a physician's assistant, and his ex-wife, Kaylee Wright, as a paramedic. He then authorised invoices totalling over 123,000 to be paid into these accounts.

The gambling products he encountered were not harmless entertainment. They stripped away Ollie's enjoyment of the game he loved so much. They were highly addictive, predatory systems designed to exploit. And they did. They stole from Ollie - not only his money, but his peace, his future, and ultimately, his life.

Photo via Getty Images The impending introduction of three new casinos in New York has come with promises of increased tourism, tax revenue, permanent job creation, affordable housing, and public green space. And while all of this seems beneficial and may very well come to fruition, one threat that cannot go unaddressed is the further enablement of gambling addiction. The State must start directing more resources to meet New York's growing addiction problem before these casinos open.

An elder law attorney from Florida has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing nearly $2 million from his clients' accounts. Polk County, Florida, Judge Cassandra Denmark also sentenced Jason Penrod, the founder of the now-closed Family Elder Law in Florida to 15 years of probation following his prison sentence, according to USA Today. Penrod pleaded guilty to two counts of grand theft and 19 counts of money laundering on Dec. 12, USA Today also reports.

Gambling debt scandals are cautionary tales, often in the worst way possible. They show how quickly addiction can derail lives and erase fortunes, not to mention break up families and ruin relationships. Whether the person in question is an athlete, executive, lawyer or heir, they all seem to fall into the same pattern where losses compound and desperate attempts to recover the money or conceal its loss usually fail.

Sam Badcock was 23 when he lost 100 a birthday gift from his brother on a gambling machine. I sprinted back to my room, grabbed the rest of the money and sprinted back to that machine as fast as I could, he says. Back then, Sam was playing 100-a-spin fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs), which offered digital roulette. Described as the crack cocaine of gambling, uproar about their addictive nature led to FOBTs being effectively banned in 2019.

In the first hour or so, most of the pro-casino people said their bit and left; their talking points were uniform and matter-of-fact, about creating jobs and bringing more people to the area. All the passion, with few exceptions, was coming from the antis. One of those folks told me - and it was reported elsewhere, too, and seemingly caught on an audio recording - that a lot of the pro-casino speakers had been paid with $80 gift cards in exchange for making some noise.

As an employee of the popular Chinese food chain living in Mexico, Salamanca-Benitez was "in the throes of a gambling addiction" and struggling to make ends meet, his attorney wrote in court filings. His solution was to broker several high-end methamphetamine deals over the phone, leading to a drug courier taking a total of 30 pounds of the drug to an undercover DEA agent in San Jose and Redwood City, court records show.

The buyer's guilt that I get nearly every time after I've spent is insane ... Sometimes I open things and I don't want them.

Karen's story reflects the alarming rise of problem gambling in Brazil since the legalization of online gambling, with minimal protections for consumers.