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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
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...
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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