{"id":52686,"date":"2025-08-01T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52686\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:19:10","slug":"sports-betting-brought-trouble-for-gamblers-not-jobs-for-mass-umass-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52686\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports betting brought trouble for gamblers, not jobs for Mass., UMass research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MGMMGM Springfield in Springfield. (Don Treeger \/ The Republican, File)<\/p>\n

SPRINGFIELD \u2014 More Massachusetts gamblers<\/a> are reporting harm to their personal lives than before sports betting was legalized in the Bay State.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s 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>, a research professor of epidemiology in the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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