Explaining the science behind gambling addiction as web searches rise
LAS VEGAS — Researchers say public health warnings are essential to avoiding further harm as online searches for gambling addiction surge.
It’s all happening as the number of states with legalized sports betting has expanded in recent years, prompting a need for more public health awareness.
The new findings released this week “suggest that sportsbooks pose a substantial health concern,” researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Bryn Mawr College wrote in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Dr. Marc Kahn, Dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, joined ARC Las Vegas and Evan Schreiber to explain the science behind the addiction as searches rise.
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