Americans no longer have to deal with the rudimentary betting options offered on foreign gambling sites.
. The promise is the same: convert your sports knowledge into cash. For these platforms, the transition was as simple as flipping a switch. “Daily fantasy sports is gambling,” says Nower. “It was exempted under a law because at that point they didn’t anticipate the daily fantasy sports platforms, and they didn’t want people being charged with gambling violations for holding an office pool. So these platforms got in under a loophole.
In-play betting constitutes a big part of what experts call the move from “discontinuous” to “continuous” gambling—moving from betting twice a week on the lottery, for example, to modern online betting. The latter has a much. The NCPG doesn’t have the resources to check for the rate of gambling problems, only the risk, explains Whyte, but they have found that the latter increased by 50 per cent between 2018 and 2021.
The US puts all the onus on the addict to self-exclude. Public health scholars tend to appeal to a “harms-based frame” rather than “problem gambling,” explains McGee; it's not some flaw in a person’s character that is the issue, but a society that abandons the vulnerable to exploitation. In this framing, “the only form of ‘prevention’ most states use is putting up billboards or sticking the 800 gambler help line number on everything,” Nower says.
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