£950m a Year Staked on Roulette Betting Terminals in Westcountry

Published January 30, 2014

£950m a year staked on roulette betting terminals in Westcountry
Players can stake up to £100 every 20 seconds on the touch screen machines, which offer casino games and have been dubbed the “crack cocaine of gambling” by critics. There are 644 FOBTs in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset, spread across 177 … Read more on Western Morning News

One person dies from a drug overdose every day in Ireland
The statistics from the Health Research Board also found that the number of people who have died from misuse of cocaine has more than halved in just four years. A total of 23 people died after using cocaine in 2011, compared to a peak of 66 deaths in … Read more on thejournal.ie