This episode is the second half of Melissa’s conversations with Dr. Malkin about gambling-related harms & gambling-motivated crime and risk of historically oppressed, marginalized, and under-researched populations. 

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In this episode, Part 1, Melissa is joined by Dr. Michelle Malkin, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology and the Director of the Gambling Research and Policy Initiative (GRPI) at East Carolina University.

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Katie and Melissa discuss the options presented to loved ones with a compulsive gambler in their life: work through the house fires, or run?

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Katie and Melissa discuss their initial confrontation with gambling with the hope that their experiences and knowledge can help you navigate your own.

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Katie and Melissa discuss something that makes living life with gambling addiction more complicated than ever: kiddos. Kat shares her experiences of trying to hold for her then-9 and -11 year olds.

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Katie and Melissa tackle one of the hardest topics when it comes to living with a compulsive gambler: hope. Each shares how they found hope from within and outside of the flames consuming their lives, and finding peace.

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Kat shares her story of discovering her husband’s gambling addiction.

Trigger Warning: child abuse, emotional abuse, suicidal ideation; language.

Mouse shares her journey through her 1st & 2nd husbands’ gambling addictions.

Trigger Warning: intimate partner abuse, domestic violence, suicide; language.