05-23-2025, 04:18 PM
(I sure hope this is an Outside Topic, but with the announcement of the new swim coach, I'm a little less certain)
During the NCAA Women's Golf Championship, the NCAA played PSA (or ads?) about not harassing players because of gambling losses. Interestingly, those all spoke of the harassment after the fact, not harassment with intent to alter the competition.
The Journal of the American Medical Association has Online First emails with various papers, opinions, etc. In today's email, under Medical News, was "The Hidden Health Costs Associated With Legalized Sports Gambling" by Kate Schweitzer (Associate Managing Editor, Medical News, JAMA). It referenced "Growing Health Concern Regarding Gambling Addiction in the Age of Sportsbooks"
Findings in the latter indicates "sportsbooks (physical or online places where individuals can place wagers on the outcomes of sporting events) have expanded from a single state to 38 states, with wagers increasing from $4.9 billion in 2017 to $121.1 billion in 2023. Pre/post analyses revealed substantial national increases [23%] in online searches for gambling addiction after Murphy v National Collegiate Athletic Association, with pronounced increases in states that introduced online sportsbooks."
Among the bits in today's article
During the NCAA Women's Golf Championship, the NCAA played PSA (or ads?) about not harassing players because of gambling losses. Interestingly, those all spoke of the harassment after the fact, not harassment with intent to alter the competition.
The Journal of the American Medical Association has Online First emails with various papers, opinions, etc. In today's email, under Medical News, was "The Hidden Health Costs Associated With Legalized Sports Gambling" by Kate Schweitzer (Associate Managing Editor, Medical News, JAMA). It referenced "Growing Health Concern Regarding Gambling Addiction in the Age of Sportsbooks"
Findings in the latter indicates "sportsbooks (physical or online places where individuals can place wagers on the outcomes of sporting events) have expanded from a single state to 38 states, with wagers increasing from $4.9 billion in 2017 to $121.1 billion in 2023. Pre/post analyses revealed substantial national increases [23%] in online searches for gambling addiction after Murphy v National Collegiate Athletic Association, with pronounced increases in states that introduced online sportsbooks."
Among the bits in today's article
Quote:38 states have legal sports betting, and not only through brick-and-mortar sportsbooks. Online operators offer unfettered access to sports betting opportunities. A study coauthored by Ayers found that online bets accounted for 94% of total sports wagers in 2023.
about 1 in 5 US adults personally bet money on sports in some way.
“Among normal gamblers not betting on sports, 5% to 10% demonstrate risky behavior, but for sports betters, we’re seeing in our studies almost double the amount of risk-taking,” he said. The rate of gambling problems is also twice as high among sports betters than other gamblers.
A study in JAMA Pediatrics of Minnesota middle school and high school students in grades 8, 9, and 11—under the legal age for gambling—found that they most commonly bet on sports and games, even though sports betting is not yet legal in the state
Research also associates sports betting with reduced household savings, increased credit card debt, higher bankruptcy rates and debt collections, and more loan delinquencies
Among the states that did include provisions for addressing problematic gambling, the allocated funds were “insufficient in scale,” Ayers said. .... New Hampshire, which dedicated just $100 000 to resources in 2023 despite collecting more than $35 million from sports betters.
Roughly 5 million people in the US meet the criteria for compulsive gambling, according to the National Council on Problem Gambling, but only about 8% seek help.
"...There’s case study evidence that some medications used to treat addictions to alcohol or opioids—naloxone specifically—can help with gambling as well.”
