Extreme Case: Gambling Addiction - A New High

[Derickhelpful]

Highlights:

• Mother stole £76,000 from her company to fund online bingo addiction. Lucienne Mainey has been jailed for 16 months

• Lucienne Mainey became addicted to online gambling after her marriage collapsed, a court heard yesterday.

• A trusted member of staff, the 41-year-old began stealing money from the company as her addiction got worse.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...addiction.html

[Moonlight Cat]

Gambling is gambling. This is a part of our buisness.

[ocreditor]

A very sad story. I hope she can sort her life out.

[F-L-C]

Source.... The Daily Mail *cough*

[xecutable]

A New High? Neither New nor High! It's been around for ages, this is far not the worst case either. Instead of being jailed, she should be hospitalized and treated. Addictions in any sort, even to substances are more mental than physical.

[Imperator]

Guys you should watch The Gambler (1974) with James Caan. That movie describes the pathologic gamblers quite well, and is one hell of a movie.

[Derickhelpful]

Interesting Comments

[FictionNet]

I need to get my aff link over to her.

[CPReport]

Instead of being jailed, she should be hospitalized and treated.

Unfortunately this wasn't a victimless crime. Otherwise I would agree.

[Maria F]

That lady definitely needs help dealing with her addiction, if it wasn’t gambling it could have been drugs or food or other. Depression can push you to the edge.