Record numbers of gambling addicts were hospitalised last year, new NHS figures reveal

Record numbers of gambling addicts were hospitalised last year, new NHS figures reveal Record numbers of gambling addicts were hospitalised in the NHS last year, figures reveal, amid calls for the £2 cap on stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals to be brought forward.

Data released for the first time reveals more than 100 people were admitted because their “pathological” gambling addiction was so severe they needed hospital treatment.

It represents a rise of 50 per cent in just a year, and is a dramatic increase from the handful treated in 2000 when the World Health Organisation (WHO) first recognised gambling disorder as a medical condition. The Daily Telegraph