Gambling, Addiction and FOBTs

WHAT CAN I FIND IN THIS POST?
It starts with a short list of hyperlinked (CTRL-click to visit the page in a new tab, keeping this page open!) articles and a podcast, most looking at the issue of 'FOBTs' (gambling machines found in bookies which many are getting addicted to).
Videos on this follow.
Finally, there are a series of links for researching specifically the issue of teen/young problem gamblers.

FOBT = fixed-odds betting terminal

1: ARTICLES/PODCAST ON FOBTs
The resources below present a variety of views and experiences of gambling, including stories from some people who are addicted to gambling. Many argue that these 'FOBTs' are a key part of 'problem gambling', and you'll notice that one of the videos is from a pressure group specifically campaigning to ban these.

You should start with this feature by the NHS, which features a problem gambler also profiled by the BBC.

Newspaper articles
I gathered these from one source, The Guardian (they collect similar stories here); if you go on to other papers' websites websites you can find more such stories, some with different views

1 Curb on betting terminals will enforce cut in maximum stake
Ministers to tackle 'crack cocaine of gambling' with new limits on fixed-odds betting terminals


2 Students who gamble their loans away
'I lost £8,000 in an hour,' says a student gambler. Why are students increasingly drawn to betting?

3 Bookmakers retaliate in battle over tax on FOBT high street casinos
George Osborne's tax on fixed odds betting terminals has the bookmaking industry scaremongering about job losses – a weakness racing can exploit

2: VIDEO CLIPS ON FOBTs
C4 News Debate (5mins)
An industry spokesman and a gambling addict debate the issue of FOBTs.


BBC Look North Report (5mins)

Bristol teens finish A-Levels...then organise protest march through Facebook

Teenage anti-austerity protesters in Bristol challenge ‘lazy’ stereotype http://gu.com/p/4axmx?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

Where in the world can 16 year olds vote?

Votes for 16- and 17-year-olds – where else outside Scotland? http://gu.com/p/49za7?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

The Price of Politics: For a Fiver YOU could be electing party leaders

Want to get involved in party politics? It costs less than you think http://gu.com/p/49ycb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

Teens and drug usage

As teens, you are bombarded with media imagery glorifying drug usage; the following is a 1980s track that the media didn't realise was all about drug use. Can you think of any acts (or other media content: films, TV characters, games etc) that glorify drug usage?


That's not the only track that the media didn't realise was really about drugs; this BBC article lists others.

ELECTION 2015 What UK school votes revealed

‘A corner of Tory Bromley has just turned red.’ How the school electorate is voting http://gu.com/p/483ta

ELECTION video mash-ups

The general election campaign sees the usual range of party political broadcasts and posters, but there are some rather more fun mash-ups out there, where footage is re-edited and re-presented to twist and transform the original meaning or message. The Observer brought together a few of these; click on the <READ MORE> link below to find the link; the picture is just a screenshot of the article.