SINGAPORE – When Alex (not his real name) was 14, his friends introduced him to illegal football gambling through bookies.
“We thought, wow, we can make money out of this, it looks simple and easy,” he said.
Little did he know then that it would be the start of a decades-long addiction to gambling that he would try to quit several times, yet come back to each time.
At his lowest point, he was in a six-digit sumof debt, having borrowed from friends and family and “literally everyone I knew” for the purpose of gambling, he said.
Alex, now 37, is still going through counselling and is part of a Gamblers Anonymous support group at We Care Community Services. He is working as a safe distancing enforcement officer and volunteers with We Care…
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