Millions of adults in Britain like to gamble, but thousands of young people do too. Teenage Gambler tells the stories of several young people for whom a little flutter has grown into something far more serious.
Brothers Dean and Aaron are kings of the Blackpool arcades. Arcade bosses try to ban them but they keep coming back. Jamie has just turned 18 and is obsessed with fruit machines, spending hundreds of pounds each week, and now his whole family is hugely in debt. In Devon, Matthew has also just turned 18 and spends all his spare money in the local casino. His dad has encouraged his habit.
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