Helpline calls up 39% in 2025 • VCPG connected 1,508 callers directly to problem gambling treatment • 24/7/365 free ...

For Buddy Wiggins of Honolulu, Hawaii, the end result of a yearslong sports gambling addiction has come to this: soliciting strangers on the beach.

Gambling is no longer confined to neon casino strips or smoky betting shops, it now lives in our phones, on our couches and in the middle of televised sports. As this new wave of gambling addiction ...

CNN Sports reports on the way gambling addictions prey on fandom, the convenience of online sportsbooks, and masculine culture of competitiveness to corrupt the role of sports in their lives.

Almost half of those calling about sports betting reported having lost more than $25,000. Nearly one in four reported losing more than $100,000.

New Haven’s former police chief Karl Jacobson turned himself in on an active arrest warrant from Connecticut State Police ...

Gamblers Anonymous wasn’t working for Sam DeMello. To the tech-savvy millennial, whose gambling problem had flourished in online isolation, the meetings felt practically public compared with the ...

The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling says calls to the state’s gambling helpline tied to online wagering have ...

The National Council on Problem Gambling adopted a new number after a legal battle ended its use of 1-800-GAMBLER, which it had operated since 2022.

Having a family member or a close friend with a gambling problem puts people at greater risk of developing one, too, a new study finds. The findings add to a growing body of research suggesting that ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul was blasted for her plan to expand gambling addiction programs while three new casinos are underway and the state rakes in a growing jackpot from legal betting. Critics called Hochul ...