Caught between being stuck at home and closed casinos, addicted gamblers may view the $1,200 stimulus check as a windfall to bet online.
Bob* only ever had to travel four miles to go to the casino. When the coronavirus pandemic shut it down, his gambling got even closer to home.
Bob never viewed gambling as a solitary pursuit. Going online for a wager held little interest for him; after all, part of a casino's appeal was being in the company of others. The person he called was Jeffrey Wasserman through the Delaware Council on Gambling Problems' gambling helpline. Bob thinks that call allowed him to nip a problem in the bud before the losses, which were only ever in the low thousands, ever became life-changing.
"There are definitely new issues arising in terms of access to gambling and regarding the emotional effects of isolation," Wasserman, who hosts a podcast called"The Addicted Gamblers," toldA gambling online website page is shown in this illustrative image. Gambling charities are concerned that the coronavirus restrictions in which casinos are shut could lead to a rise in online gambling.
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