正在戒赌的退休人员戴夫表示，赢钱时他感觉自己像个国王，被财富和认可的前景深深吸引。但他表示，和大多数赌徒一样，他“必然”开始输钱。
Dave, a retiree recovering from gambling addiction, says that when he was winning, he felt like a king, hooked by the prospect of wealth and recognition. But he says like most gamblers, he "inevitably" started losing.
“输掉的不只是钱——还有信任、我们在乎的人、配偶、孩子，我们失去了一切。我们建立的一切都轰然倒塌，”他在多伦多最近一次“匿名戒赌互助会”线上会议中对加广新闻记者说。
"Not only money — trust, people we care for, spouses, children, we lose the whole gamut. Everything that we built goes crumbling down," he told CBC News during a recent online Gamblers Anonymous meeting in Toronto.
“所以我们常会尝试自杀，我就试过。结果证明我在这方面也是彻底的失败者。”加广新闻调查发现，过去十年里，加拿大至少有220名问题赌徒死于自杀，其中安大略省与赌博相关的自杀案例自2022年以来增加了两倍（即增至三倍）。
"So we often try suicide, which I did try. I turned out to be an utter failure at that." A CBC News investigation has found that at least 220 problem gamblers in Canada have died by suicide in the last decade, which includes a tripling of gambling-related suicides in Ontario since 2022.
加广深度调查：安大略省扩大博彩后，赌瘾与自杀激增 但全国实际数字可能更高，因为阿尔伯塔省、萨斯喀彻温省、新斯科舍省、育空地区和努纳武特地区不追踪与赌博相关的死亡案例，理由是大多数死亡调查中缺乏明显迹象。
CBC Investigates Ontario sees surge in gambling addiction, suicides after expansion But the national numbers are likely higher, as Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Yukon and Nunavut don’t track gambling-related deaths, citing a lack of obvious indicators in most death investigations.
此外，加拿大从未有验尸官就此问题举行过死因研讯——这与澳大利亚和英国形成对比，后两国正利用死因研讯深入审视博彩业及成瘾与自杀的关联。“痛苦与巨大危害”澳大利亚一名验尸官上月发布尖锐的死因研讯报告，在调查22岁青年凯尔·哈德森自杀案后，呼吁对行业进行重大改革。
What’s more, no coroner in Canada has ever held an inquest into the issue — unlike in Australia and the United Kingdom, where inquests are being used to critically examine the gambling industry and the links between addiction and suicide. 'Misery and great harm' A coroner in Australia delivered a scathing inquest report last month, calling for major industry reforms after investigating the suicide of 22-year-old Kyle Hudson.
哈德森18岁生日后开设了网络博彩账户，四年间下注超过1万次，累计亏损4.7万加元。他去世的那天早上，曾下注并输掉6200加元。
Hudson opened online betting accounts after his 18th birthday and over four years, placed more than 10,000 bets, losing a cumulative $47,000 Cdn. The morning he died, he had placed and lost bets worth $6,200.
验尸官保罗·洛里认定，哈德森常用的平台SportsBet本应察觉其赌博成瘾问题。
Coroner Paul Lowrie concluded that Hudson’s preferred platform, SportsBet, ought to have detected his problem gambling.
“凯尔的案件最深刻地揭示了网络赌博的人力代价，”验尸官写道。“这应当是一个明确的信号，表明我们不能将监测和干预完全交由博彩公司掌控。” 听证会获悉，哈德森的投注行为升级，触发了 SportBet 内部“更安全赌博”监测系统的 37 次警报。
"Kyle’s case reveals, in the sharpest relief, the human cost of online gambling," the coroner wrote. "It should be a clear signal that we cannot leave monitoring and intervention solely in the hands of the betting companies." Hudson’s betting escalated and triggered 37 alerts on SportBet’s internal "Safer Gambling" monitoring system, the inquest heard.
该公司向他发送了自动支持邮件，并多次致电要求暂停其账户，却接到哈德森的回拨，他设法说服公司恢复了账户。
The company sent him automated support emails and on multiple occasions called him to suspend his account, only to receive a call back from Hudson, who convinced them to reinstate it.
SportsBet 还向哈德森发送了数百份奖金优惠和诱导继续游戏的信息，验尸官认定这“违背”了该公司的更安全赌博计划。
SportsBet also sent Hudson hundreds of bonus offers and inducements to continue playing, which the coroner found to be "contrary" to the company’s safer gambling programs.
“这些产品经过精心设计，旨在让赌徒保持参与和活跃，并随时间榨取净损失，”洛里写道。
"These products are carefully designed to keep gamblers engaged and active, and to extract net losses over time," Lowrie wrote.
“它们具有危险性，能够造成痛苦和巨大伤害，尤其是对年轻人或因特质可能更脆弱的人群。” 在听证会期间，SportsBet 坚称哈德森没有赌博问题。尽管有哈德森家属的陈述、专家意见以及对其网络赌博活动程度的分析。
"They are dangerous and capable of causing misery and great harm, especially for the young or those whose traits may make them more vulnerable." SportsBet maintained during the inquest that Hudson did not have a gambling problem. That’s despite accounts from Hudson’s family, experts and analysis of the extent of his online gambling activity.
“SportsBet 持有这种观点令人毛骨悚然，”洛里总结道。
"It is chilling that this is SportsBet’s view," Lowrie concluded.
领会：大赌局 介绍《大赌局》 听证会审视博彩公司的玩家数据 英国谢菲尔德的查尔斯·里奇创办了慈善机构“与生命赌博”，他认为听证会是改变法律、揭露博彩业真相的重要工具。
Understood: The Big Bet Introducing The Big Bet Inquests examine gambling companies' player data Charles Ritchie of Sheffield, England, who started the charity Gambling With Lives says inquests are an important tool to change laws and cast light on the gambling industry.
他在 24 岁的儿子杰克于 2017 年 11 月自杀身亡后成为倡导者。
He became an advocate after his 24-year-old son Jack took his own life in November 2017.
“我们立刻意识到是赌博害死了他。他的遗书里写得清清楚楚，”里奇对 CBC 新闻详细讲述了杰克如何在青少年时期开始赌博，并在电子游戏终端上意外赢得 1000 英镑（约合 1870 加元）后迷上了网络赌博。
"We realized straight away that it was gambling that had killed him. It was there in his suicide note," Ritchie told CBC News, detailing how Jack had started gambling as a teen and got hooked online after a fluke win of 1,000 pounds ($1,870 Cdn) on an electronic gaming terminal.
里奇表示，2022 年对杰克之死的听证会证实了其死因是赌博。
Ritchie says an inquest into Jack’s death in 2022 validated that it was caused by gambling.
此外，他表示，如果公司未能在成瘾案件中进行干预，死因调查已成为悲痛家属追究公司责任的宝贵工具。
Beyond that, he says inquests have become a valuable tool for grieving families to hold companies accountable if they have failed to intervene in cases of addiction.
监管机构称赌博应用程序能发现预警信号，在某人去世后，死因调查可以利用玩家数据和银行记录分析死者的行为。
Gambling apps can spot warning signs, says watchdog 9 minutes ago Duration After someone’s death, he says inquests can analyze the deceased’s behaviour using player data and banking records.
“当我们查看这些原始数据时……有人在凌晨四点下注数百次，输掉数百英镑。作为一个正常人，你会说：‘这不对劲。我们需要干预。”他说。
"When we look at those figures in the raw… Somebody is, at four o'clock in the morning, having hundreds of bets, is losing hundreds of pounds. You as a human being would say, ‘This is wrong. We need to intervene,’" he said.
“赌博公司不这样做。在许多死因调查中都发现了这一点。”加拿大没有死因调查 自2022年杰克·里奇死亡调查以来，英国已举行了七起与赌博相关的死因调查，并向政府和赌博行业提出了多项建议。加拿大的验尸官和医学检查官从未进行过类似的调查。
"Gambling companies don't do that. And that has been found in so many of the inquests." No inquests in Canada The U.K. has held seven gambling-related inquests since Jack Ritchie’s death inquiry in 2022, resulting in numerous recommendations to the government and the gambling industry. Coroners and medical examiners in Canada have never undertaken a similar investigation.
加拿大广播公司联系了加拿大各地的首席验尸官和医学检查官，他们承认并非每个司法管辖区都追踪赌博自杀案例。
CBC contacted chief coroners and medical examiners across Canada, who acknowledge not every jurisdiction tracks gambling suicides.
大多数验尸官在自杀调查中也不考虑问题是否赌博是一个促成因素。如果没有明确的遗书，很难发现这一点。
Nor do most coroners consider whether problem gambling was a contributing factor during suicide investigations. It can be hard to detect without an explicit suicide note.
有赌博成瘾的人倾向向家人和朋友隐瞒问题。验尸官并不常规调查自杀受害者的财务记录或在线历史记，以确定他们是否有赌博问题。
People with gambling addictions tend to hide their problem from family and friends. Coroners don’t routinely probe a suicide victim’s financial records or online history to determine whether they had a gambling problem.
记者罗布·切尔尼克，作者，表示，首席验尸官在2003年承诺开始在全国范围内追踪这一问题。但这从未发生过。
Journalist Rob Csernyik, author of , says chief coroners pledged in 2003 to begin tracking the problem nationally. It has never happened.
“尽管赌博不断扩张，但在加拿大很多年里这都不在关注范围内，”切尔尼克告诉加拿大广播公司新闻。
"It's just something that hasn't been on the radar in many years in Canada, despite the expansion of gambling," Csernyik told CBC News.
“我认为，随着合法赌博市场的大力推进，这是我们最终需要解决的问题。”肖恩·凯利博士表示，自2022年安大略省将私营在线博彩合法化以来，该省与赌博相关的自杀人数增加了两倍，这让他担心我们将看到一场成瘾流行病。
"I think that now with the larger push into legal gambling markets, that it's something we finally need to address." Dr. Shawn Kelly says the tripling of gambling-related suicides in Ontario since 2022, the year the province legalized private online betting, worries him that we'll see an epidemic of addiction.
“这是我一直担心的事情，”在渥太华工作的青少年成瘾专家凯利说。
"This is the thing I’ve been fearful for," said Kelly, an adolescent addiction specialist in Ottawa.
他呼吁对问题赌博进行更严密的监测，并限制赌博广告，以在赌博的危害恶化之前加以遏制。
He’s calling for much closer monitoring of problem gambling as well as restrictions on gambling advertising to curb gambling’s harms before they get worse.
“在我看来，等到我们有确凿证据证明赌博立法的变化导致弱势群体自杀增加时再采取行动，就为时已晚了。”加拿大广播公司（CBC）请安大略省卫生厅就该省赌博成瘾及相关自杀上升发表评论。
"To me, it would be much too late to act when we had irrefutable evidence that our changes in gambling legislation have led to an increase in suicide amongst the vulnerable." CBC asked Ontario’s Ministry of Health to comment on the rise in gambling addiction and related suicides in the province.
部长新闻秘书将问题推给安大略省旅游、文化和博彩厅，该厅负责监管该省每年30亿元的在线博彩市场。
The minister’s press secretary deferred to Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Gaming, which oversees the province’s $3-billion-a-year online gambling market.
博彩厅没有回应自杀率上升的问题，但在一封电子邮件中表示，自2018年以来，“我们的政府已投资4.21亿元，包括去年的7010万元，用于负责任博彩教育、研究和成瘾治疗。”与此同时，全球设有分会的互助团体“匿名戒赌会”（Gamblers Anonymous）的成员们希望更多挣扎中的人伸出援手。
The Gaming Ministry did not address the rise in suicide rates but said in an email that since 2018, "our government has invested $421 million, including $70.1 million over the last year, in responsible gambling education, research and addiction treatment." In the meantime, members at Gamblers Anonymous, a peer-to-peer support group with chapters around the world, are hoping more people who are struggling reach out for help.
和戴夫一样曾有过自杀念头的丹，将这个团体描述为一个“大家庭”。
Dan, who like Dave considered suicide, describes the group as a "big extended family."
“如果我没找到GA（匿名戒赌会），我极有可能会流落街头、失去家园、婚姻，甚至丧命，”他告诉加拿大广播公司新闻。“这种念头曾多次闪过我的脑海。” 匿名戒赌会“挽救了我的命，”康复中的赌徒说 你或你认识的人是否正遭受赌博困扰？援助随时可得。
"If I didn't find GA (Gamblers Anonymous), there's a very solid chance that either I'd be living on the streets, lost my home, marriage or even dead," he told CBC News. "That came across my mind many times." Gamblers Anonymous 'saved my life,' says recovering gambler Are you, or someone you know, suffering from gambling? Support is available.
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