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Sports BettingGamblingNews · Aug 26

Ex-US Surgeon General Issues Dour Warning – Sports Betting May Be the Next Opioid Crisis

By Mike JohnsonAugust 26, 2026

The brief

The proliferation of sports betting has raised mixed responses in people, with some seeing the activity as innocuous, others welcoming it as a chance to replace seedy offshore websites, and others still – echoing the words of Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, who served as Surgeon General of the United States between Septemb…

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