Typical Addict

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Male, white-collar, in mid-30s - NHS gambling centre reveals typical addict

The corrosive effect of “problem gambling” on the educated middle classes is revealed today in an audit from the country’s first NHS gambling centre.

The typical patient seen in the National Problem Gambling Clinic (NPGC) is a white-collar male in his mid-30s who has one or even two jobs to help to fuel his addiction, research seen by The Times shows.

Henrietta Bowden-Jones, a consultant psychiatrist who set up the clinic, said: “It is very unusual because we are looking at a highly functioning group of individuals overall......