Sports Betting Is the ‘New Oxycontin’
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The online gambling industry is profiting off addiction ‘the same way the Sackler family profited off of opioids.’ Only this time the pushers include state governments.
Brian misses the old days of gambling, when it was still illegal and the worst that could happen was some goon might have your legs broken.
That was five years ago.
The 27-year-old network engineer from Queens, New York—he declined to share his last name out of fear of losing his job—would bet a few grand every week. A little poker. Maybe the casinos. Usu…
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