{"id":690595,"date":"2026-05-24T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/690595\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:40:09","slug":"new-survey-highlights-rising-fears-of-sports-betting-addiction-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/690595\/","title":{"rendered":"New Survey Highlights Rising Fears of Sports Betting Addiction in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sports-betting-angus-reid.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"New Survey Highlights Rising Fears of Sports Betting Addiction in Canada\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(via Angus Reid Institute)<\/p>\n<p>A recent survey shows that concerns are growing about the risk of addiction and financial loss caused by the profusion of sports betting in Canada \u2013 especially among young to middle-aged men.<\/p>\n<p>New data from Angus Reid shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/angusreid.org\/sports-betting-addiction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three in ten Canadians<\/a> asked say they are worried that someone they know has an addiction to sports betting.<\/p>\n<p>That number rises to 39 per cent among those who bet themselves and 37 per cent among young men.<\/p>\n<p>Of those who say they\u2019re worried about someone in their life, 81 per cent of respondents say that person is male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sports-betting.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299747\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sports-betting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"539\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-299747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Angus Reid Institute)<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen per cent of Canadians asked say they\u2019ve placed a sports bet in the last year, but the figure rose to one in five for men ages 18 to 54.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (via Angus Reid Institute) A recent survey shows that concerns are growing about the risk of addiction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-690595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}