Gambling having a negative impact on your life?
We are here to support you. At Beacon we offer FREE counselling for people with gambling-related harms issues, with no waiting list.
None knows what causes gambling-related harms. Although there are relationships found between family gambling behaviour, age of onset and experiencing a big win early in their gambling career, it is not possible to determine cause and effect.
This is further complicated by the fact that gambling-related harms is rarely found in isolation. Those experiencing gambling-related harms often also present with others problems, such as alcohol or drug addiction.
Over 20% of the UK population are affected by gambling-related harms, and between 340,000 and 1.4 million adults in the UK are directly experiencing severe gambling-related harms.