WHAT ARE YOU ADDICTED TO?

The word addiction is often used in relation to bad habits but I believe that there is a good side to addiction, when it is for promoting good things for the benefit of your nation and generation. Get addicted to transforming generations!

But being addicted to the wrong things is bad and has great consequences and the prize is costly. Our news for this write-up is one of the very bad effects of an addiction to the wrong thing.

Again, as my focus is always on what you can do to walk in your purpose and use your potential, why not learn from this story and begin to walk away from your bad habits.

Addiction can cost people their lives or end the life of their neighbour.

£45,000 and £300,000 will go a long way to solve the world’s problem; for example, if sent as relief to many under developed countries it will build a generation there. Even in the UK, it can help many lives. But when wasted on Bingo, it brings more problems to the world.

Beware and be addicted to saving lives. Read with me once more and move step further towards your good goals.

This woman is £45,000 in debt after becoming addicted to online bingo

Harry Readhead for Metro.co.ukSaturday 14 Mar 2015 8:20 pm

 

The mother-of-one says gambling should be advertised during the daytime (Picture: SWNS)

A woman has racked up debts of more than £45,000 after developing an addiction to online bingo.

Kelly Nield, 32, says she was tempted to try online bingo after seeing an advert for Foxy Bingo on The Jeremy Kyle Show while off sick from work.

But the mother-of-one is now £45,000 deep in debt after she developed an eight-hours-a-day habit that burned through her savings and maxed out five credit cards.

‘You get to the point where you can’t see a way out,’ she said.

‘I just wanted to find a way to make myself stop and when my thoughts turned dark I knew I had to get help.

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MsNield said she started online bingo after seeing an advert on The Jeremy Kyle Show (Picture: YouTube)

‘I would gamble from the second my family left in the morning until they came home at night. My partner and I were saving £500 a month and I would just access the accounts and spend what I could.’

MsNield, of Merseyside, finally told her partner Ian Nairn about her addiction and went to see a doctor.

But she has now attacked laws that allow gambling to be advertised during the daytime.

‘Drugs, alcohol and sex would not be advertised before the watershed but why is it OK to advertise gambling?’ she said.

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Online bingo addict stole £300,000 from Cambridge University

Oliver Wheaton for Metro.co.ukMonday 16 Mar 2015 7:55 pm

Jacqueline Balaam was jailed for two and a half years (Picture: Cambridgeshire Police/PA Wire)

A woman who stole almost £300,000 from University of Cambridge coffers to fund an addiction to online bingo has been jailed.

Jacqueline Balaam, 41, of Fallowfield, Cambridge, was arrested in January last year on suspicion of theft from her employer after bosses at Pembroke College became suspicious.

She pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by abuse of position and one count of false accounting at Cambridge Crown Court.

The court heard that Balaam falsified invoices to obtain a total of £285,986.18 between June 2012 and January 2014, Cambridgeshire Police said. She also defrauded a social club, where she worked as treasurer, of £3,198.

In total it was estimated she made and lost more than £6 million during her online gambling addiction.

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Pembroke College, Cambridge (Picture: MASONS)

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Detective Sergeant Dave York said Balaam had “systematically abused” her positions of trust in the college accounts office and Girton Social Club by using a sophisticated and complex method of falsifying accounting records.

Balaam, who was a finance officer at the university had managed to cover her tracks in order for her crimes to go undiscovered for so long.

He added: ‘This is a case where the strength of an addiction to online gambling overcame the defendant’s resistance to temptation.

 

‘Sadly, thefts related to gambling addictions are a common problem and the sentence is a reflection of how firmly cases like this are dealt with.

‘It should hopefully serve as a warning that there are serious consequences if anyone is in a position where they are tempted to take money to fund their gambling.

‘I would encourage anyone facing this issue to seek help before it gets to this stage.’

Balaam was today sentenced to two and a half years in prison, the force said