Article 6GT5A ‘We’re killing the youth of America’: calls for crackdown on gambling

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

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Callum Jones in New York
from US news | The Guardian on (#6GT5A)

Worries that gambling addiction has spiked in the US as legal sports betting booms have led to calls for increased regulation

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.

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