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  1. Addiction experts fear a coming national epidemic of #OnlineSportsBetting to rival the opioid crisis.

    #Gambling is a very different #addiction from drugs or alcohol,” said Lia Nower, a professor and director of the Center for Gambling Studies at Rutgers University.

    “If I’m drunk or high, at some point my family is going to figure it out. With gambling, I can be sitting with my kids, watching cartoons, and gambling away my house, my car, everything I own, on my mobile phone. How would you know?”

    thehill.com/finance/3851713-sp