MGM Springfield in Springfield. (Don Treeger / The Republican, File)
SPRINGFIELD — More Massachusetts gamblers are reporting harm to their personal lives than before sports betting was legalized in the Bay State.
That’s negative repercussions to financial status, health, emotional and physical well-being, family and relationships, work and school performance, according to research detailed Thursday by gambling behavior expert Rachel Volberg, a research professor of epidemiology in the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences.
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