Gambling with Lives
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Gambling with Lives
@GambleWithLives
We're a charity set up by families bereaved by gambling-related suicide that provides support, raises awareness, & advocates for change.

“There is solid evidence of the gambling product characteristics that are used to create the most addictive forms of gambling. "These products behave in exactly the way they are intended to, & anyone can be addicted” An important truth from GwL co-founder Liz Ritchie at this week’s World Health Assembly side event on Gambling and Public Health in Geneva.




Today, we co-convened & spoke at a side event of the 79th World Health Assembly on gambling and public health. Thank you to colleagues from Brazil, Portugal, the US, UNICEF, WHO & partners across the global health community for the opportunity to contribute. There is growing international recognition that gambling harm – including gambling suicide – is a public health issue requiring far stronger action to prevent harm & save lives.



We can support people in talking with children, friends, or workplaces about gambling-related suicide bereavement. To get in touch visit: gamblingwithlives.org/family-service/











