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MICHIGAN, Feb. 18, 2025 ~ Michiganders are on pace to gamble $7.5 billion on their phones and laptops in 2025.
Since Michigan legalized online casino games and sports betting in 2021, the state reported calls to the Michigan gambling helpline have more than tripled, with two-thirds of the people calling the helpline being men, 30% are in their 30s, and 21% in their 40s. All this week, WJR Senior News Analyst Marie Osborne will look at the issue and whether the state and casinos are doing enough to help curb the spike in several problems with online gambling. Experts from Stanford University, Wayne State University, and the State Department of Health and Human Services, along with someone who grappled with an online gambling addiction, will join her during WJR Afternoons with Chris Renwick.
PODCASTS:
Feb. 17, 2025 ~ Marie Osborne talks with Dr. Anna Lembke, chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University, for part one of her news series on gambling addiction, All In.
Feb. 18, 2025 ~ Marie Osborne talks with David Legerwood, director of the Nicotine and Tobacco Research Division, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University, about how different addiction work, and how people can help someone who has a gambling addiction.
Feb. 19, 2025 ~ Marie Osborne talks with Alia Lucas, department analyst with the State of Michigan‘s Bureau of Substance Abuse and Addition Services, on part three of her gambling addiction series, All In.
Feb. 20, 2025 ~ Marie Osborne checks in with Sam DeMello, operations consultant with The Mass Council on Gaming and Health about being a gambling addict and how difficult it can be to break that addiction.
Feb. 21, 2025 ~ Marie Osborne speaks with Marlene Warner, CEO of Mass Council on Gaming and Health for the final part in her series on gambling addiction “All In.”
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