![]() ![]() Support for the practice has grown: About two-thirds of recently surveyed adults approved of legalizing betting on professional sports, up from 55 percent in 2017, according to polling from The Washington Post and the University of Maryland. Thirty states and the District of Columbia have live, legal sports betting, and five more states have live sports betting on the way. Supreme Court cleared the way to legal sports betting in 2018, states have raced to open the taps of tax revenue from the practice. About 5 percent of all young people between 11 and 17 meet at least one of the criteria for a gambling problem, such as liking the rush felt when gambling, writing IOUs to stay in the game and wanting to win “the big one” so much that they keep playing even when losing a great deal. The percentage of high school students with a gambling problem is double that of adults, research has found. The council is a nonprofit group that advocates for helping problem gamblers but is neutral on legalized gambling. “We believe that the risks for gambling addiction overall have grown 30 percent from 2018 to 2021, with the risk concentrated among young males 18 to 24 who are sports bettors,” said Keith Whyte, the council’s executive director, in an interview. ![]()
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