Maryland legislature to analyze gambling expansion 

“(The American Psychiatric Association) now defines gambling addiction at the same level as heroin, opioids and cocaine. We do not market those products like the state government markets gambling,” said Les Bernal, national director of Stop Predatory Gambling & Campaign for Gambling-Free Kids. “Online gambling is like gambling fentanyl, it’s like the most extreme form of all. It’s opening the casino right in your bedroom so you can sit there in your pajamas and lose everything.”

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