Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams is warning that legal sports betting poses a growing public health threat, comparing the rapid expansion of the industry to the early days of the opioid epidemic. “Sports betting is the new opioid crisis. Our kids, especially our boys, are getting exposed and hooked early. And it’s ruining lives as surely as turning a blind eye to prescription opioids did,” Adams wrote on X, the social media platform, in …
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