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From office pools to online betting platforms to taking a crack at picking the perfect bracket, the allure of predicting game outcomes and potentially winning big is irresistible for many. Beneath the surface of this annual sports event, however, lies a darker reality: the dangers of sports betting and gambling addiction.
College students face a unique risk. A significant portion are unaware of the consequences and are focused exclusively on making money - potentially jeopardizing their academic success, ability to remain in school and graduate.
While the majority of college students who are of legal age to gamble do so responsibly, one organization estimates that 6% of U.S. college students have a serious gambling problem that can result in psychological difficulties, unmanageable debt and failing grades. A 2022 report found more than 1 in 5 college students have used their financial aid to gamble.
As a licensed clinical psychologist who studies gambling among college students, I have observed that one of the key factors contributing to the rise of gambling addiction is the widespread normalization of gambling within sports culture.
The constant bombardment of betting promotions during March Madness can desensitize individuals to the risks involved, leading to impulsive decision-making and related behavior. Moreover, the increased number of states that have legalized mobile sports betting in recent years - now 30 - have made access to online sports betting easier, particularly for young people below the legal gambling age of 21.
A 2023 NCAA survey of 3,527 young people ages 18-22 found that sports wagering is pervasive among this group. The survey indicated that 58% have placed at least one sports bet. Sports wagering is widespread on college campuses - 67% of students living on campus are bettors and tend to bet at a higher frequency than students living off campus. Forty-one percent of college students who bet on sports have placed a bet on their school's teams, and 35% have used a student bookmaker.
Advertisements have a major influence: 63% of on-campus students recall seeing betting ads. This is a higher rate than found in the general population or those that commute or attend college virtually. Fifty-eight percent of those students indicate they are more likely to bet after seeing ads.
Problem gambling shows up in this population, with 16% having engaged in at least one additional risky behavior such as alcohol and drug use. Six percent report they have previously lost more than US$500 on sports betting in a single day.
Meanwhile, 70% of these risky gamblers believe consistent sports gambling will increase their monetary earnings. The accessibility of mobile sports betting has made this the preferred choice, with 28% choosing mobile options for their wagering. State legality and age restrictions do not pose much difficulty, as areas where betting is legal have nearly the same rate of engagement as areas where it is not.
For some college students, gambling for fun can turn into a serious problem. Gambling addiction includes all gambling behavior patterns that compromise, disrupt or damage personal and family relationships or vocational pursuits.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, symptoms of gambling disorder include increasing preoccupation with gambling, a need to bet more money more frequently, and restlessness or irritability when attempting to stop. Symptoms also include "chasing" losses, frequent unexplained absences from classes or work, and visible changes in behavior such as mood or a sudden drop in grades. Those with a gambling disorder may also experience a decline in health, withdrawal from loved ones and loss of control. In extreme cases, problem gambling can result in financial ruin, legal problems, loss of career and family, or even suicide.
Recognizing and responding to warning signs early can make a significant difference. Organizations such as the National Council on Problem Gambling provide confidential support and can connect individuals with services and treatment programs tailored to their needs. Call or text their helpline at 1-800-GAMBLER, chat with helpline counselors at www.1800gamblerchat.org, find a treatment facility or attend a self-help meeting.
Therapy and support groups can be invaluable tools. Specifically, research shows cognitive-behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing techniques have been effective in treating problem gambling by addressing underlying issues and helping individuals develop healthier coping strategies.
A virtue of the ridiculously long and seemingly perpetual election cycle in the United States is that it does elicit moments of truth from politicians, who have so much time to accidentally say what they really mean.\u00a0 The 2012 election seemed awash in Republican politicians who could not keep themselves from offending women with their spasms of truth-talk.\u00a0 Two Republicans running for the U.S. Senate lost what should have been sure-bet elections after they let themselves say things like: raped women can\u2019t get pregnant (Todd Akin, Missouri), and pregnancy following a rape is a blessing (Richard Mourdock, Indiana).\u00a0 They were not elected in stronghold Republican states.\u00a0 God works in mysterious ways.\nA third Republican running for Congress in Washington State, John Koster, lost a tight race after being recorded last week saying that \u201cthe rape thing\u201d does not justify abortion.\u00a0 Koster acknowledged that his statement may have hurt his chances, commenting, \u201cThat\u2019s the sad part of this race . . . . We wanted to talk about jobs, the economy.\u201d\u00a0 So his point was that he didn\u2019t want women to know his true, extremist views?\u00a0 Or that women don\u2019t deserve to know his views on their rights to their bodies?\u00a0 He would determine their priorities?\u00a0 The misogyny is palpable.\nAll of these men were at some point denied national Republican Party support, but none stepped aside, and so Republicans were tarred by the statements their candidates made.\u00a0 Mourdock was the only Senate candidate Romney endorsed.\u00a0 Hard to believe the RNC didn\u2019t know the extremism of these candidates until they let slip their true views to the public.\nWhen added to Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan\u2019s push in the House to halt any funding of Planned Parenthood (whether related to abortion or not), and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney\u2019s shift to oppose abortion and to favor overturning Roe v. Wade, and the other myriad ways in which Republicans across the country attacked women\u2019s autonomy and rights, as I discussed in this column, it should be no surprise that the Republicans lost critical swing states in part because women were more inclined to vote for Democrats.\nAccording to the exit polls, 55% of women voted for Obama, while 44% voted for Romney.\u00a0 In fact, Romney outpaced Obama in only one main category of voters: white men.\u00a0 In a country of increasing racial diversity, and one where women constitute 54% of the population, this should keep Republican leadership up all night for a while, assuming they want to learn from their mistakes.\nThe Republican Leadership Is on Mars\nThere has been much talk after the election about how out of touch the Republican Party seems to have become, and the gender gap is a significant part of that.\u00a0 The white men at the top of the party seemed genuinely surprised by Romney\u2019s loss.\u00a0 Republican political strategist and senior Romney advisor Ed Gillespie embarrassingly told reporters before the polls closed that he expected Romney to earn over 300 Electoral College votes.\u00a0 He was far, far off the mark.\u00a0 Romney won a mere 206 to Obama\u2019s 303 (excluding the still-being-counted Florida votes).\u00a0 And who told the Romney campaign it was worth their while to court the Pennsylvania vote on the day of the election?\u00a0 Had they seen the new ad that had Mitt Romney on numerous occasions saying that Roe v. Wade should be overturned?\u00a0 Whether you took that ad to mean he is in opposition to women\u2019s liberty, or saw it as just the most recent reminder of Romney the flip-flopper, my guess is that it sealed the deal against Romney and therefore in favor of Obama for many women in Southeastern Pennsylvania.\u00a0 I assume that the Republicans are already looking for more in-touch, reliable pollsters, but, at the same time, it does appear that the leadership was, unbelievably, unaware of the very existence of the constituencies they have turned off.\nIf there is any doubt that the electorate is more pro-female and minority than the Republican Party leaders comprehend, look at the election results in the congressional races.\u00a0 In a historic moment, women will now occupy 20% of Senate seats for the first time; and white males have lost their majority status in the Democratic caucus in the House.\u00a0 In January, there will be 16 Democratic female Senators and four Republican female Senators.\u00a0 Plus, Democrats elected the first Asian American to the Senate (Tammy Hirono of Hawaii) and the first openly gay Senator (Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin).\u00a0 If the Party\u2019s demographic missteps are not already obvious, think about this:\u00a0 White male Republican Paul Ryan did not deliver his own state of Wisconsin for Romney, while Wisconsin voters approved the first openly gay Senator.\u00a0 That is a double message for the Republicans.\u00a0 And, finally, in a year when Republicans supposedly had the upper hand, they lost seats in the House, narrowing their majority.\nA Missed Opportunity on the Economy\nThere was a time before President George W. Bush\u2019s tenure\u2014during which his Administration permitted spending to run out of control and the economy tanked at the very end of his second term\u2014when Republicans could claim that they were the party of fiscal restraint and success.\u00a0 If there was ever an election when those qualities should have prevailed, 2012 was it.\u00a0 But Romney failed to sell his solution for solving the economic downturn.\u00a0 Women do indeed care about the economy (see the point below about their wanting to be paid for their work), but men can\u2019t just tell them what the men think they need to know, and then expect them to fall in line.\u00a0 Gone are the days when women vote as their husbands dictate\u2014if they ever did.\u00a0 (I think Abigail Adams may have struck a death blow to that idea long ago.)\nPart of the problem was that the Republicans had to take some responsibility for the downturn originally.\u00a0 More importantly, though, Romney refused to be frank about whose ox would be gored by his budget and tax-cutting.\u00a0 He was intentionally opaque on that point, which meant that the Republican ticket did not stand out against the Democratic ticket as offering a compelling economic solution.\u00a0 Romney\u2019s telling Americans he would \u201crestore 12 million jobs\u201d sounded like hocus pocus to Americans who were jaded by the preceding economic slowdown, and, to those on the East Coast, recently battered by a massive hurricane.\nThe Republican Party Became a Party Defined by Social Negatives\nWithout scoring decisive points on the economy, the Republican Party staked its reputation on a brazenly extremist conservative Republican Party Platform, rife with social issues, as I discussed in this column. So what did the Republicans stand for, in the 2012 election?\u00a0 The most memorable positions were Paul Ryan\u2019s drive to defund Planned Parenthood; Mitt Romney\u2019s yo-yoing on abortion so much that, in the end, any rational person had to conclude that he couldn\u2019t give 2 cents about the issue; callous insensitivity to rape victims; and opposition to gay marriage.\u00a0 That is not a package for success, as it turns out.\nIn a nutshell, there were probably two positions (reflected in the Republican Platform) that were seen as being reliably Republican: (1) opposition to abortion and even contraception; and (2) opposition to gay marriage.\u00a0 In other words, the Republican Party has come to be defined primarily by negatives.\nThe former position\u2014rejecting reproductive rights\u2014turns off a majority of women, while the latter, anti-gay-marriage position is actually incomprehensible to most young people, who by large majorities have no problem with gay marriage.\u00a0 A Party can only ignore these two demographics at its peril, as the Republican Party learned on Tuesday.\u00a0 President Obama, early in the campaign, publicly endorsed gay marriage, which the dinosaurs among the Republicans assumed would hurt him.\u00a0 Quite to the contrary, college students were genuinely enthusiastic about the Obama campaign, in part due to this progressive stance, and turned out to vote accordingly.\nThe Republican Party Needs to Look Back to the 1970s When the Party Platform Backed the Equal Rights Amendment\nThe Republican Party\u2019s problems with the female vote started in the 1970s, when it abandoned the Equal Rights Amendment.\u00a0 Decades ago, the ERA was endorsed by the Party in its Platform.\u00a0 That was a party that could win elections.\u00a0 Now, however, the Republican Party has become known for opposing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which President Obama signed into law and lauded, and for working to repeal state equal pay acts.\u00a0 Did it occur to no one in the Party that working women were going to be disinclined to vote for a party that believes men should get paid more for the same work?\u00a0 Let\u2019s call that what it is: stupid.\nIt is also another reminder of how out-of-touch the Republican men in power have become.\u00a0 Women who work are still doing a majority of the child-rearing and housekeeping.\u00a0 They are overburdened and race from work to child to home to do as much of it \u201call\u201d as they humanly can.\u00a0 They work to support their families, not to earn \u201cpin money.\u201d\u00a0 To tell women in these circumstances that they should not be paid fully for their efforts at work is, again, for lack of a better word, stupid.\nRepublicans Must Loosen Their Death Grip on Minority, Extremist Religious Positions, or Choose to Lose\nThe Republican Party also needs to have a sit-down conversation with the pollsters who have done poll after poll showing that a large majority of Americans favor the use of contraception, and do not oppose abortion in all circumstances except the life of the mother.\u00a0 The Party, in recent years, has staked its future on more and more tightly embracing a set of social positions that only a minority of Americans share.\u00a0 While they are there, they need to look at the youth demographic on gay marriage.\u00a0 These extreme positions have been dictated by particular religious viewpoints that a majority of Americans do not endorse.\u00a0 If those in power in the Party are determined to continue to focus on these issues as the Party\u2019s defining creed, then they should know that, by doing so, they are willfully handing the White House to the Democrats for terms to come.\nThis year\u2019s Republican Party Platform, for example, embraced a breathtaking right of health care professionals to refuse to do anything that affects the worker\u2019s religious beliefs, as I discussed in this column.\u00a0 In other words, if your pharmacist opposes contraception, the Republican Party platform held that he or she should not have to fill your prescription or sell you over-the-counter contraception.\u00a0 That is so far beyond the mainstream as to be laughable.\u00a0 What I use for contraception is none of my pharmacist\u2019s business, period.\nHere is a statistic that the men at the Republican Party\u2019s top might want to scrutinize very carefully:\u00a0 Obama got 50% of the Catholic vote, while Republicans received only 48%.\u00a0 If Republicans believed they were courting the Catholic vote with their extreme positions on contraception and abortion, it did not work.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Try this one on for size: a majority of Catholics disagree with their bishops on contraception.\u00a0 (See my suggestion above about sitting down with pollsters who will tell you where Americans stand, not what they think you want to hear.)\nThe Republican Party needs a major infusion of new viewpoints, and needs to listen to the youth of our country, members of minorities, the LGBT citizens, and the women who are so thoroughly turned off by the Party\u2019s social positions, and who deserve real input on the Party\u2019s social and economic positions.\u00a0 Then it needs to focus on the economic issues and government-accountability issues that it could claim at one time were its raison d\u2019etre.\u00a0 That is, of course, assuming it wants to win the hearts and minds of a majority of Americans in the future.\n" } Verdict Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia Justia Home Columnists Topics Archives Resources Subscribe Header Social Media - Facebook Header Social Media - Twitter Header Social Media - RSS Header Social Media - Facebook Header Social Media - Twitter Header Social Media - RSS Search on verdict.justia.com Search Does the Republican Party Want to Win? If So, Some Suggestions 8 Nov 2012 Updated: 8 Nov 2012 Marci A. Hamilton GrandeDuc/Shutterstock.com
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