Online sports betting has young adults calling for aid

inwards 2023, sports betting advertisements seem impossible to escape.

“You can’t turn on the television without seeing it,” said Loretta Vasso, a gambling counselor at Alliance Counseling Services.

The advertisements are everywhere, appearing online, on TV, on the radio and on the road.

“I don’t know that anybody was really truly ready,” said Josh Ercole, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania

Before online sports wagering, Ercole said, it wasn’t similar this.

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