The proliferation of legal sports betting across the U.S.
And while it might seem like video games are a far cry from gambling, Yeager pointed out that the “loot boxes” needed to get to the next level of a game make it exactly that. Yeager then added scratch-off lottery tickets, the stock market, and gaming to the list. By the the time the sun breached the mountains, the cadets were seated in a classroom pondering questions about gambling.Ī five-question survey that explored what a person knew about gambling - for example, whether slot machines, scratch tickets, bingo, 50/50 raffles, or watching an NBA game are considered gambling - was the first step in a new program through Kindbridge Research Institute to educate ROTC students about gambling addiction.ĭave Yeager, retired from the Army and recovering from gambling addiction, opened the session by asking, “What are common kinds of gambling?” The first answer offered was sports betting, followed by bingo, slots, blackjack, poker, and roulette. 15, more than 150 ROTC members stood at attention in the shadow of the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field, preparing for their day.
