‘I’m not going to be alive tomorrow’: Gambling addiction strains Pennsylvania families
A Lehigh Valley family’s crisis highlights concerns that problem gambling may be becoming a public-health emergency in Pennsylvania.
When Samir came home in April, he asked his parents for $100,000 to pay off his gambling debts.
“People are after me. You don’t know. I’m in deep (expletive),” his mother, Tara, said he told her. “I’m not gonna be alive tomorrow. Either they’re gonna kill me or I’m gonna jump off the balcony.”