New research suggests a significant link between exposure to gambling advertisements on television during major football tournaments and an increased likelihood of placing bets. The study focused on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Addiction experts say sports gambling is as serious as substance abuse, but goes widely misunderstood. It could be the next public ...

Texas Tech's Brendan Sorsby left the team to seek gambling addiction treatment. He joins the growing ranks of young men struggling with sports betting.

Sports betting has fast become a multi-billion dollar industry. It’s as ubiquitous as it is lucrative. In 2022 the Pew Research Center reported that a staggering 1 in every 5 adults in the country had ...

If you've been reading the news lately, you might be tempted to think so. Young men are all addicted to sports betting, and now the industry's incessant advertising is luring in kids, so say some ...

Gambling can be addictive—just like drugs or alcohol. Once restricted to casinos in a handful of states, legal gambling is now widespread and big business across the country. Nowhere is this more ...

Journalist Eli Thompson and recovered gambling addict LJ Ruggiero discuss the rising problem of sports betting addiction among young men. Gen Z journalist Eli Thompson and recovered gambling addict LJ ...

Editor’s note: This piece has been updated to more accurately reflect the subject’s experience with gambling. As a parent, all you really want is to protect your kids. To see them grow up healthy, ...

He's also under investigation by the NCAA.

As sports betting grows across the country, so do concerns about gambling addiction. Sports betting is legal in 39 states and D.C., and states can get billions of dollars in tax revenue from it. In ...

To Sam DeMello’s friends, it seemed like the then 26-year-old had everything together: a six-figure tech salary, an enviable workout regimen and a happy relationship. But as he crossed the finish line ...