As concerns over gambling addiction mount, states are set to rake in millions from Super Bowl bets

Sunday's showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will take place in Las Vegas, a megacity that state football leagues and other profiles have avoided for decades because of its strong ties to gambling, especially sports. Jamie Squire via Getty Images

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| February 9, 2024

Sports betting has spread to 38 states and Washington, D.C., over the past five years. In that time, states have also seen massive increases in calls to gambling addiction hotlines. Plus, more news to use from around the country in this week's State and Local Roundup.

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This weekend will see the Super-Cup-spectacle, which will tell you almost everything about what choices state governments have made in recent years when it comes to sports betting.

Experts are actually waiting for Americans to post a record $23 billion on Sunday. The state has contributed to the rise of its own group of bettors on the Internet and sports games, not paying attention to the relatively inadequate winnings and the sharp rise in reports about people suffering from gaming addiction.

Sunday's showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will take place in the megalopolis of Las Vegas, a place that the state football league and other profiles have avoided for decades because of its popular links to gambling, especially sports fees.

The league's commissioner had long worried that gambling, in fact, had every chance of blowing up the unity of their sports, pushing fans to their own line. And of course, gambling led to the big scandals that people talk about decades later, starting with the Black Sox in 1919 and ending with the Pita Roses.

Everything changed when the Supreme Court sided with New Jersey and challenged Nevada's exclusive legal right to allow sports betting, which the Legislature created in 1992. At one time, every state had the chance to allow sports betting, and almost every state got it. Lobbyists for gambling companies like DraftKings and FanDuel flooded state capitals to legalize the new gambling and get approval. Currently, 38 states, Washington state, and Puerto Rico allow betting on the Super Bowl and other sports events, and several other states are evaluating the opportunity to adopt such measures (although two states, California and Missouri, have refrained from doing so due to their proximity to the teams that will be in the Super Bowl).

I was surprised at the speed of history. The religious newspaper has made a local government lottery for about 60 years in 1964 in 1964, and 40 states have obtained a lottery. Before this, it took only five years to bet on sports, for example, a distance.

One of the basis of this interest is that the state has all the opportunities to collect taxes from new proposals. Last year, the state took $ 2 or 1 billion from sports rates to compare $ 1 and 5 billion in 2022. However, this is definitely an important amount, but it is considered a relatively small part of the highly profitable image of these large companies like the state government. In 2023, in the name of sports national tax, this is less than $ 2, 1 billio n-this is under the form of the last economic tax in Idaho. In addition, most of the new benefits of the gambling industry are concentrated in several states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Illinois.

On the other hand, the impact on people complaining of gamblin g-dependent dilemma is also great. According to human rights activists, Yankee has been suffering from game addiction within 7 million.

In Kentakka, the first sports betting was allowed in September, and the number of calls to the hotline on gambling dependence has tripled. In Ohio, the number of calls increased by 55 % in the first year of Sports Betting. The number of telephones has doubled in Connecticut State.

At the same time as the law was revised, the advanced technology has led people to bet by supporting their mobile phone terminals at any time and from any place. This reduces the disability of people suffering from gambling addiction. A while ago, Diana Hood, the representative of the Connecticut Gambling Council, said in an interview with the marketplace:

"I needed to dress up to gamble." I needed to decorate it to gamble.

Such technology is still being used to pull out the betting. By adopting powerful data collection activities and fak e-minded, the game company has all the opportunities to customize its own offer, so that buyers be t-this IRGE NFL's current transmission final. I will report 60 Geminates to my favorite tennis games in the research institute.

Young men are gambling and face game addiction tasks more frequently than others.

For example, even before sports tariffs become legal in North Calorin, selective polls have shown that most of the students play gambling for the previous year. In fact, defenders are afraid that age restrictions set by new laws to restrict their participation in gambling aged 21 and over will be less to prevent more dependence on young residents.

"They are more at risk than older people. They still have every chance of being autonomous from the presence of skill, the smallest known that this is all just like a gambling game," Amanda Umes, head of the Program to Promote Gambling, told the (Raleigh) News & amp; Observer. "You can't get in front of the game."

Advocates for preventing gaming addiction call for bringing a host of changes to state laws regarding sports fees. A ban on the introduction of credit cards for gambling, a wider spread and accessibility of state support for people suffering from gambling problems, and of course, uncollected funds for data from treatment offers.

But municipal regulators were caught off guard by the increased commitments they should have already made, and often ended up permanently acknowledging practices that lawmakers did not approve, a New York Times investigation said as of 2022.

Some also say the federal government should play a more active role in treating gambling addiction. In January, two members of Congress proposed a bill to divert federal tax revenues from sports betting to gambling funds.

Keith White, president of the State Council on Gambling Duties, told Marketplace that addressing gambling addiction at the state level is pointless.

"Precisely how we don't consider cancer, diabetes or drug addiction in individual states, for example, we have no choice but to accept that gambling is something that needs to be looked at at the state level," he said.

It remains to be seen whether other states will join the sports betting frenzy. Georgia lawmakers are gauging the possibility of accepting a constitutional amendment to allow sports betting, but such an attempt failed last year. Other states face problems due to ties to indigenous peoples in South America, opposition from religious conservatives or major legal barriers: Alabama, Alaska, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.

However, residents often find how to betting, even in places where sports betting is illegal, such as Missouri. According to GeoComping, more than 81. 000 Missouri residents have an account and bet. According to Kansas City Beacon, Geocomply has recorded 24. 000 transactions at the border between Kansas and Missouri.

Gambling has a strong attraction and provides people with great things that can not be obtained with drugs and alcohol, said Scott Anderson, a gambling specialist at the Ohio Mental Health and Pharmaceutical Support Bureau, said in an interview with New York Times. I am.

"Gambling is the only thing that changes the mood of hope," he said. "I don't intend to pay for the drug and pay for child support."

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