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Resources
Stop Betting Sports aims to provide a wide ranging set of resources for everyone to access.
Watch, read and explore evidence-informed perspectives on sports betting, gambling harm, prevention, recovery and public health.
The Sunday Project
Weekly live conversation on gambling behavior, habits, and recovery. We talk about real experiences, patterns, and how people get pulled in, and how they get out.
New sessions. Live. Every Sunday, 10AM PST.
Watch
Documentaries, explainers and public discussion about the rise of sports betting and its impact.
FRONTLINE: The Fantasy Sports Gamble (full documentary)
CBS Reports: Raising the Stakes: America’s Growing Sports Gambling Addiction
Last Week Tonight: Sports Betting (HBO / John Oliver)
News explainer: “Sports betting boom fuels concerns over problem gambling” (video segment)
Latest articles
“We Are Broken”: The Families Carrying the Hidden Cost of Sports Betting
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.
Read
Recent reporting on gambling harm, public health concerns and the changing sports betting landscape.
Recent reporting (2025–Jan 2026)
- Harvard Gazette: “Sports betting worries grow as wagers skyrocket” (Jan 6, 2026)
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (magazine): “As Online Betting Surges, So Does Risk of Addiction” (Dec 19, 2025)
- STAT: “The rise of sports betting is a growing public health crisis” (Nov 11, 2025)
- Center for Health Journalism: “The explosion of sports betting… fueling a new public health crisis” (Jan 5, 2026)
- USC Annenberg Media: “A mobile casino in your pocket…” (Jan 23, 2026)
Research / expert perspective
- NIDA (Nora Volkow): “Gambling disorder in the age of mobile sports betting” (Nov 2025)
- National Council on Problem Gambling: survey highlights on men’s risk and growth in online gambling participation (2024 findings; posted Jul 2025)
- Reuters: Gambler sentenced to 2 years in prison in NBA betting scandal
- AP News: Sports betting, Missouri college prop bets
- Reuters: Kalshi cannot operate sports prediction market in Massachusetts, judge rules
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