GPs have been urged to ask patients about gambling habits in the same way they ask about smoking and alcohol after a man took his own life shortly after placing 628 bets in just over an hour.
Lee Adams, 36, died in his home in Streatham on July 24, 2020 after developing a gambling disorder. That day Lee had placed hundreds of bets on online slot games and had spent almost all of his monthly salary in the hours before his death.
On November 7, 2025, Dr Julian Morris, the Senior Coroner for Inner South London, concluded that a gambling disorder was one of the medical causes of Lee’s death.
