<div>Why are we facing a gambling - and now gaming - addiction crisis? Vicki and Geraldine talk to Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones, founder of the first NHS gambling disorders clinic and also the first NHS gaming disorders clinic.</div><div><br/></div><div>Talking points:</div><div><br/></div><div>Are there links between gambling and gaming?</div><div>How come we don’t know how big a problem we’ve got?</div><div>Gaming: a gateway to problem gambling?</div><div>What does gaming disorder look like?</div><div>A personal problem, affecting a minority of ‘vulnerable’ people? Or a public health issue?</div>

20: Bot Detectives

Welcome to ‘Tech Shock’ – the new podcast from Parent Zone! Vicki Shotbolt and Geraldine Bedell are your hosts, looking at how digital technology is affecting family life.  They’ll help explain its mysteries to parents, teachers, professionals and policymakers; looking at whether streaming platforms are encouraging young people to make porn, whether online lives are creating a generation of gamblers and whether there are too many men on the internet.  So subscribe now, rate the podcast, and give it a 5-star review – and keep listening every Monday morning for a new episode of ‘Tech Shock – from Parent Zone’.