Addiction treatment specialists with Tennessee Association of Alcohol, Drug and other Addiction Services (TAADAS) fielded three times the typical number of calls every month since sports betting launched in Tennessee last November.
Mary Linden Salter is the Executive Director of TAADAS. She says calls to the addiction treatment REDLINE have seen a huge increase and this includes calls related to all sorts of addictions.
Salter believes the pandemic forced some to seek out different ways of coping with the stress and isolation. For some people, it was alcohol, while for others it may have been online gambling.
