OP Ed From FORMer Executive Director Anita Bell
Online Sports betting will create a new generation of problem gamblers
Additional articles on Sports Gambling
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Young People are NINE times more likely to Commit Suicide if they are Problem Gamblers, Study Finds (DailyMail, February 5, 2021)
Children as young as 15 losing “vast amounts of money” to online gambling (NewsTalk, 10/13/2020)
Study: High speed gambling reduced self-control, even among non problem gamblers (European Gaming, 8/13/2020)
‘My son was shaking, trying not to go online’: How the gambling industry got its claws into children (The Guardian, 7/11/2020)
Final Synthesis Report: The effect of gambling marketing and advertising on children, young people and vulnerable adults (Ipsos MORI, March 2020)
A gambling suicide EVERY day: Shocking report finds 2m families blighted by problem gambling
8% of Marriages End Up In Divorce Due to Gaming Addiction: The Latest Research in Texas (The Signal, 9/30/2019)
Study: Problem gamblers or likely to attempt suicide (The Guardian, 7/19/2019)
Children more likely to become gamblers due to high volume of betting ads (The Guardian, 3/26/2020)
Blood on their hands: How 500 people – mostly young men – kill themselves every year after getting hooked on gambling by ruthlessly greedy betting giants (Daily Mail, 1/20/2020)
