‘We’re killing the youth of America’: calls for crackdown on gambling

Worries that gambling addiction has spiked in the US as legal sports betting booms have led to calls for increased regulation

The United States is heading into a “quagmire, if not crisis” of gambling addiction among young people, according to counselors and clinicians – prompting calls for a regulatory crackdown.

Treatment clinics are grappling with an influx of patients in their teens and early 20s and helplines are reporting record levels of calls.