Nick Pell

The Mayo Clinic offers us a comprehensive list of signs of problem gambling.

If you're constantly obsessing over gambling, including figuring out ways to get more money for gambling, you're probably a gambling addict.

Like any other addiction, gambling

Gambling addiction requires increasing amounts of the drug to get the same thrill.

You're taking bigger risks with bigger bets just to feel something.

In the words of Axl Rose, I used to do a little, but the little wouldn't do it, so the little got more and more.

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Another common symptom of addiction that applies to gambling, trying to quit without success, irritability when not gambling or gambling to avoid your problems, chasing losses, which is gambling more money to win money back, lying to your family about losses or otherwise letting gambling interfere with your personal or work life.

Finally, there's borrowing money to cover your gambling expenses.

According to the National Council on Problem Gambling, between 2 and 2.5 million adults have severe gambling addiction, with another 4 to 8 million with gambling problems that impact their lives but don't tick enough boxes to officially be gambling addicts.

The lifetime risk is that between 1 and 2 percent of all Americans will experience a gambling problem at some point in their life.

Men are twice as likely to have gambling problems as women, according to a poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

This is especially true of young men.

As many as 10 percent of men under the age of 30 have gambling problems.

Asian-Americans and black Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to have a gambling problem.

We don't have super specific stats, but we do know that problem gambling has increased, not just with the legalization of Sportsbook, but also with the dissemination of online gambling.

Searches for help for gambling addiction spiked between 30% and 67% after the mass legalization of online gambling.

We know that frequency of play is the biggest red flag.

According to recent national polling, 35% of people who gamble, even casually, already report at least one problem behavior, such as chasing losses or lying to loved ones.

When you look at high-intensity groups like online sports bettors, the number nearly doubles, with 68% showing signs of problematic play,