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Online betting causes serious gambling problems for teens

According to the data provided, teens have increasingly started betting online despite a package of precautions. Instead of playing new releases of SpongeBob games, they are choosing to get into adult entertainment. Increasingly, teens and young adults have become addicted to online gambling, which is a concern for politicians and therapists in the…

Gambling Addiction ・ 30 December 2023

The Guardian

‘We’re killing the youth of America’: calls grow for crackdown on US gambling

The United States is heading into a "quagmire, if not crisis" of gambling addiction among young people, according to counselors and clinicians - prompting calls for a regulatory crackdown. Treatment clinics are grappling with an influx of patients in their teens and early 20s and helplines are reporting record levels of calls. "There's a lot of…

Gambling Addiction ・ 01 December 2023

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Teens Are Developing ‘Severe Gambling Problems’ as Online Betting Surges

The growing acceptance of online gambling in the U.S. is permeating the nation's universities, high schools, and even middle schools at a rate that is of growing concern to politicians, therapists, and local helpline workers, who are noticing more underage and youth gamblers coming forward with problems. Since the Supreme Court ruled in favor of…

Gambling Addiction ・ 11 October 2023

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NJ announces gambling ad standards, responsible gaming coordinator

As casino and gambling revenue continues to climb in New Jersey, state officials announced steps to limit the kinds of advertising that would be allowed in the state industry. The move calls for the creation of "a new position dedicated to responsible gambling" and for the state to set new for operators, said New Jersey Attorney General Matt…

Gambling Addiction ・ 21 April 2023

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New Jersey Office Of Attorney General

Division of Gaming Enforcement Begins Using Data on Players’ Online Betting Behavior to Identify and Assist Gamblers at Risk of Addiction

ATLANTIC CITY - As fans gear up to place their bets on Super Bowl LVII, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) today announced a new, groundbreaking Responsible Gaming Initiative to identify and help problem gamblers by utilizing information already collected by online gaming operators about…

Gambling Addiction ・ 08 February 2023

NBC New York

Gambling Addiction: Calls to Gambling Crisis Hotlines Soar

As mobile betting apps turn people's phones into pocket-sized casinos, gamblers are also putting their phones to use for a more traditional purpose. To reach out for help. An I-Team analysis of call data in New Jersey shows an steep spike in outreach to 800-GAMBLER, the state's hotline to deal with compulsive gambling and addiction. According to…

Gambling Addiction ・ 02 December 2022

L'Observateur

More seniors are using computers for entertainment and some are gambling at Internet casino sites

WASHINGTON, DC -The statistics show that a growing number of senior citizens are becoming tech savvy. Perhaps the isolation protocols of the pandemic have helped encourage the elderly set to accept computers as a means of keeping in touch with friends and relations and as a way to shop online. The FandomSpot website, focused on Internet content,…

Gambling Addiction ・ 10 July 2022

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More Seniors Are Using Computers for Entertainment And Some Are Gambling at Internet Casino Sites

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NJ lawmakers told: Out-of-control gambling is ruining lives

With commercials for betting popping up everywhere you look these days, New Jersey is now facing an epidemic of sports and casino gambling, with dire results for some. That's the warning from the executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey. Appearing before the New Jersey Assembly Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee on…

Law ・ 11 May 2022

The Press Of Atlantic City

Pandemic doubles down on gambling addiction

The COVID-19 pandemic hit everyone hard. People got sick. Money got tight. Fears rose. Addictions more than tripled. Jayson Diorio relapsed. He found treatment for his substance abuse, but the 50-year-old Northfield salesman could not stop his gambling. Even outside of the casinos, under the pressures of quarantine, internet gambling and sports…

Covid ・ 06 February 2022

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Is your kid doing it? NJ parents warned about teen gambling

Because it can create a thrill, a rush of excitement, more Garden State teenagers than you might imagine are participating in some kind of gambling activity. According to Felicia Grondin, the executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, the recent rise in teen gambling is concerning because it can lead to destructive…

Gambling Addiction ・ 28 January 2022

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NJ Lottery Launches Underage Gambling Campaign

NEW JERSEY - The New Jersey Lottery (NJL) and the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, Inc. (CCGNJ) have recently announced their annual "Not 18 Yet? No Bet" awareness campaign. The goal of the campaign is to remind residents that New Jersey law prohibits the sale of lottery tickets by or to anyone under the age of 18. This year, the…

Lottery ・ 02 September 2021

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