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Placing a bet in the US has never been easier. “More and more younger clients” – aged 25 and under – are seeking treatment, he added.Īrnie Wexler, a counselor, has not seen anything like this before.

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“Calls to gambling helplines in most states in America are up, by sheer numbers,” said Timothy Fong, co-director of the gambling studies program at UCLA. Hundreds of calls from concerned relatives each year have heightened fears in the state that problem gambling is sweeping through a new generation. Requests for support through New Jersey’s helpline more than doubled over the ensuing years, as the legal market ballooned.

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Ironically, New Jersey was the state that led the charge for the legalization of sports betting and, in 2018, successfully convinced the supreme court to overturn a decades-old federal law that prohibited the state from legalizing sports betting. “There’s a lot of kids that are gambling,” said Felicia Grondin, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey.

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