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June 9 - July 2, 2025
are crucial for their bottom line, that bettors between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five are “the guys that bring you all the money,”
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The bill banned any government entity—interpreted as state, local, or tribal—from legalizing any betting operation based on professional or amateur sports.
thirteen certified treatment providers for the entire state, just six of whom are IGCCB certified.
Gambling addiction, then, is not an addiction to winning money. Problem gamblers’ brains do not release any more dopamine when they win a bet than non-problem gamblers’ brains. The largest difference—when problem gamblers release markedly more dopamine than non-problem
He was also still chasing his losses from November and the feeling of being up so much money.
Problem gambling has a higher suicide rate than any other type of addiction.
They have a habit, in fact, of cutting off or severely limiting anyone who wins consistently, in some cases doing so under the guise of protecting problem gamblers.
addictive, brain-altering activity.
dram shop laws.
Levant asks why sportsbooks should not be partly liable if they allow someone with an obvious gambling problem to continue betting and that person commits a financial crime to keep up their habit.
sportsbooks playing a role that would inch beyond RG and toward public health.
the sportsbook could cross-reference Social Security numbers to create risk profiles. The
The nation needs counterprogramming to sportsbooks’ narrative so that young people, in particular, are able to appropriately scrutinize these messages.
From personal experience, these games are terrifying in how addictive they are. They offer much better margins than sports betting, so major gambling companies will leverage their sportsbooks to dominate this market, just as they leveraged DFS to dominate sports betting. While sports betting can be tweaked to be made safer, iGaming needs to be stopped in its tracks until it can be proven that the games are designed with player safety in mind.
