The campaign, organized by the National Council on Problem Gambling, encourages adults to avoid giving lottery tickets and ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Since sports betting became legal in 2023, Ohioans have even more access to gambling. The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Resources finds nearly 1 in 5 Ohioans are at ...

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — With 23 years in recovery from a gambling addiction, Teri has thoughts to offer Minnesota legislators who will consider legalizing sports betting in the 2024 session. "Remember ...

As opportunities to gamble expand across the country, so too are programs that treat gambling addictions. The John Brooks Recovery Center is now offering a program to treat people with a gambling ...

This is the second in a three-part series. Read part one and part three. The Gandara Center is one of the only mental health clinics in Springfield, Massachusetts, that offers treatment for problem ...

Scott Rebik recalls when in the 1980s, his gambling addiction was so serious that after losing his money in Las Vegas casinos, he began stealing coins from people at slot machines. “If they were ...

Earlier this week, Family & Children’s Association announced the opening of its Gambling Support and Wellness Centers, one in Hempstead, the other in Hicksville. The centers were welcomed by those who ...

His gambling habit began young: Tim Lawlor would play cards with his family, betting pennies on the games. But a child's innocent leisure-time pursuit developed into a full-blown addiction that ruined ...

For the Long Island gambling addict, and those at risk of becoming one, the lure of betting big on a game like Sunday's Super Bowl can lead to even bigger losses, and none of them connected to money.

In early 2022, shortly before she resigned her post amid a federal investigation into her embezzlement of Democratic Party and campaign funds, state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson helped earmark $7 ...

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