When tragedy strikes a family, the effects ripple out and become all encompassing. Serious illness, disability, stroke, heart attack – all these we consider to be possibilities. But betrayal, lies, deception, heartbreak and shame, we only ever think of as happening to “them”, never “us”. This is the story of yet another family that is included in the gambling statistics. It seems no one had any idea what was going on behind closed doors and what manipulations and deceptions were being perpetrated within the family. The story you are about to hear is not unique but it does introduce you to the brutality that gambling addiction has when love blinds its victims and shames them into retreat. 

Gambling: an inside story

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