pathological gambling

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No. Dane Miller, 32, filed a personal injury lawsuit against DraftKings in June, alleging the sportsbook relies on complex analytical tools, algorithms, and databases to enhance its product and increase the risk of gambling addiction.

Claiming the platform drove him to place more than $2 million in total wagers.

Miller opened a DraftKings account around October 2020, and his wagers quickly escalated as DraftKings sent him push notifications about live sporting events he could bet on, the lawsuit claims.

It is costing them their savings, livelihoods and family stability.

We examine the growing challenge of problem gambling.

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Problem gambling is becoming an increasingly visible challenge in Africa, with consequences reaching far beyond financial losses.

Families are losing savings, school fees and even property, while some people are turning to treatment only when their debt and personal circumstances have reached breaking point.

So the way that the levy's going to work, 4% of the licensing fees is going to go to community support.

But that's not problem gambling, is it? That's not harm minimisation.

No, that's taking...

Is it like

We don't think any money that comes from gambling should be used for community purposes.

And we know that the harm far outweighs the benefit.

But the money generated by these new online casinos, they'll still have to pay a problem gambling levy, won't they? They will.

So how much is that?

My name is Pam Brenner-Davis.

I'm the Director of Prevention for the New York Council on Problem Gambling.

Today's topic, we are discussing veterans and their impact of gambling harms on that community.

I have two guests with me today, and I'm going to give them a chance to introduce yourselves.

Following treatment, I realized that I still had a capacity to help individuals, veterans in particular, and I wanted to help veterans going through what I had just gone through.

So I reached out to several colleges and I started my degree at another community college as an alcohol and substance use counselor.

Had the grateful opportunity to become a program manager at the New York Council on Problem Gambling in 2019 in the central New York region.

But at that time, the director, Jim Maney, approached me.

I know that people enjoy it.

We could talk later about when it gets out of hand and problem gambling and all that sort of stuff.

But my sense of it, just from firstly doing my own research on this and publishing academic research about this is how it works, and also from talking to friends and family members, is that most people don't know how the process works.

They don't know how things are being priced.

the extreme stories that come out of where gambling has ruined people's lives are typically bad for business and bad.

And if there's enough of that, you start to get restrictions on your business and the restrictions restrict your profits.

So I think most of them would say there's a happy medium whereby you restrict problem gambling enough that You have enough people

enjoying it.

And the particular addiction that we're talking about is gambling.

Now, I have a soft spot in my being for gambling addiction because I was addicted.

I was able to nip it in the bud shortly after my third year of college.

However, until then, I was addicted.

And he, by the way, he's a great drummer.

Okay.

So we're just going to jump right in and start with this, instead of just talking right away about gambling addiction, okay, Sam, what is it? What do you think about it? Let's look at it from the point of view is really going to be coming from the way in left field, Fenway Park, because he lives outside of Boston.

Gambling is such a prevalent form of recreation.