It's another episode of 'Hold or Fold: Worldwide' - Where Ben speaks to people in other countries to find out how their experience of gambling and prison was different, or similar, to his own
What starts as a seemingly innocuous £1 bet spirals into a life-shattering obsession. In this riveting episode, we speak with Tony O’Reilly - Once a trusted post office manager, later a headline-making gambler, then a prisoner, and now a leading voice in the fight against gambling harm.
In this conversation, he tells us:
•\tHow addiction can start innocently and accelerate into something uncontrollable.
•\tWhat drove him down the road to crime - and what it did to those around him.
•\tWhat it’s like to hit rock bottom, to face imprisonment, and to rebuild from the wreckage.
•\tHow he now works as an accredited addiction counsellor and speaks in schools to expose the hidden dangers of gambling.
•\tHow he doesn't have regrets and his time behind bars was largely positive
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Ben Jones & Steve Girling
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