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This story is part of a CBC News series examining the public health impacts of online gambling.
Anna, a 51-year-old single mother of two teens, says online slot machine games cost her nearly everything.
And even at that point, the Ontario resident says it was hard to stop.
“The amount of money that I spent and lost — it was astronomical,” she told a recent meeting of Gamblers Anonymous in Toronto, which CBC News was invited to witness.
The peer support group has been a lifeline that helped her stop betting and break free…