As of January 31, Mass. will allow legalized sports betting in casinos, with legal mobile sports gambling a few weeks after. Rachel Volberg, a professor and researcher, discusses the what new social risks may come along with the new era of gambling.
A left field scoreboard is covered under a DraftKings promotional as Boston Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers warms up before a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in Boston.
"We think the impacts are going to be moderate. But there are some groups that we think will be vulnerable because of their lack of experience with gambling or because they're being targeted very specifically by the sports betting operators in an effort to grow the market: adolescents, young adults, women, immigrants, college athletes and people who are already in recovery from a gambling problem."Adolescents don't usually have much experience with gambling.
Employees work at the DraftKings sportsbook at Resorts Casino in Atlantic City N.J., in Nov. 20, 2018. "If you're concerned that you might be vulnerable to developing a gambling problem, how about not gamble? Let's find something else to do for someone who is becoming concerned about their own gambling. There are tools that are out there that people can put in place to set limits on the amount of time that they gamble.
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