Britain’s $18.4 billion-a-year betting industry is plagued by gambling addictions. Recent articles by NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post claim this could be “a glimpse into America’s future” after the recent Supreme Court case, Murphy v. NCAA, allowed states to regulate their own sports gambling industries.

NBC quoted Britain’s Gambling Commission regulator as saying, “… the number of problem gamblers had risen by about one-third, to 430,000 people, in just three years.”