In tandem with a lunch and learn event at the New Jersey statehouse in Trenton, the Campaign for Fairer Gambling released a comprehensive report on the dangers and social costs of microbetting. The paper includes a review of existing research on the highly addictive product as well as analysis on the social and financial costs states like New Jersey endure as a result. The campaign hopes this will be an evergreen resource on the topic.

In addition to the release of the paper, Campaign for Fairer Gambling Director Brianne Doura-Schawohl led a round table discussion in the New Jersey capitol about microbetting featuring the following panelists:

Mark Gottlieb, Executive Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute
Dr. Harry Levant, Director of Gambling Policy at the Public Health Advocacy Institute
Rob Minnick, founder of ODAAT Gambling Awareness and recovering gambling
addict
Isaac Rose-Berman, Gambling Research and Policy Fellow and American Institute
for Boys and Men

The group was also joined by the lawmakers leading the legislative effort to ban online microbets in the Garden State, Sen. Paul Moriarty, Assemblyman Dan Hutchinson, and Assemblyman Cody Miller.

PIX11 was on the scene, reporting from the event: