Category: Studies
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Help ProPublica Uncover How DraftKings, FanDuel Use Your Data
Your sports gambling data can tell a very important story. Online sportsbooks and prediction markets are under scrutiny these days for how they may offer gambling inducements to people who may have a problem with their play. This scrutiny comes as a former U.S. Surgeon General described online sports betting as the “new opioid crisis.”…
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Queens Casino May Worsen Toxic Sewage Floods, Activists Warn
Opponents of a planned casino in New York City say the project sits on a floodplain and could worsen toxic sewage and stormwater overflow during intense storms. They say the city has not properly addressed these environmental and public health risks. Meanwhile, the casino developer disputes those claims. The Queens Anti-Casino Group announced in a…
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Study Links Legal Sports Betting To More Anti-Anxiety Drug Use
A Johns Hopkins study links state-sanctioned sports betting to higher population-level risks of depression and anxiety, as well as medication use for those conditions. Legalization was associated with higher probabilities of an outpatient depression diagnosis: 6.7% for men and 5.5% for women, relative to the study’s sample averages. The probabilities of using antidepressant medications were…
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Sports Betting Doom ‘Loop’: Most Delete App, Then Reinstall It
Sports betting surveys are everywhere these days, and they sometimes produce little new insight. However, a survey from the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University offers an extraordinarily insightful and novel look at the U.S. online sports betting crisis. The national survey of 2,548 adults found that half of men downloaded a sports betting app,…
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‘Landmark’ Lawyer Survey Shows Disturbing Gambling Habits
A survey of gambling behavior among Illinois lawyers and judges shows high rates of problem gambling, though self-reported behavior doesn’t fully pull back the curtain on addiction. The Illinois Lawyers’ Assistance Program (LAP) published what it described as a “landmark study based on robust quantitative and qualitative data from a comprehensive survey completed by over…
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