Parents ask themselves: What did we miss? What did we do wrong? And then the harder questions: Should we pay off his debt? Are we helping our child, or are we helping the addiction? This week's SBS discussion opened with ESPN's feature on Amit, a University of...
The Addiction With No Track Marks
An estimated 170 million Americans may have gambled before they were legally old enough to. Most of us never saw it happen. Every other addiction leaves a mark somewhere. Alcohol shows up on someone's breath. Drugs show up in dilated pupils, in weight loss, in the...
An organization built for a smaller problem
The National Council on Problem Gambling is the closest thing the United States has to a national body responsible for gambling harm. The problem it's responsible for has grown enormously in the last few years. The organization itself has not grown to match it — and...
$2 Million Doesn’t Buy Independence: What Kalshi’s Donation to NCPG Really Tells Us
Kalshi has just donated $2 million to the National Council on Problem Gambling, badged as a “financial trader health and safety initiative.” On paper, it looks like responsibility. Look closer, and it raises more questions than it answers.
When the Game Becomes the Bet
A promising college football career was derailed by gambling. The wider story is about addiction, accountability and the culture surrounding modern sport.Brendan Sorsby had everything college football scouts look for. A standout quarterback poised to be one of the...
Global Gambling Regulation: What’s Failing and What’s Working in Australia, the UK, and the US
Traditional approaches are failing, loopholes are multiplying and a clearer blueprint for meaningful consumer protection is beginning to emerge.When dealing with an escalating global public health crisis, the policies a nation chooses to implement or ignore can mean...
The Real Game We Are Not Watching
By Deborah BuhajMarch Madness looms. Millions will fix their eyes on glowing screens, phones in bars, tablets on couches and televisions blaring highlights. Once, the focus was the game itself. Now, for many, the focus is the line, anxiously waiting to see whether a...
Stop Betting Sports Programme Launch Announcement
No shame. No pressure. No camera required.Los Angeles, California - 9th March 2026. Stop Betting Sports today announced the launch of a free gambling prevention and support programme available virtually across the United States.Developed by licensed clinicians who...