‘I can’t escape these machines’: addicts tell of huge losses from slot gambling

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‘I can’t escape these machines’: addicts tell of huge losses from slot gambling

Councils given more powers to stop ‘unwanted’ sites opening, as number of UK slot machines exceeds 30,000

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.

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