Black Women's Health Alliance aims to prevent gambling addiction across the lifespan, creating gambling awareness programming for everyone from children to seniors. In this podcast, BWHA has partnered with local Philadelphia college students studying "Health & Societies" to discuss gambling. After reading sociological, psychological, historical, and public health research on gambling in the U.S. and reflecting on what they have seen around them, the college students share what they have learned in five episodes:

Episode 1. What Is Gambling? A 15-minute introduction to the BWHA podcast series on College-Aged Gambling. This first episode provides striking statistics about the prevalence of gambling in the U.S.; defines key terms and kinds of gambling; and explains different “comorbidities,” or other health problems often associated with gambling. ~ with Daniela Uribe, Ikym Simon, Jennifer Salako, and Sarah Girgis

Episode 2. How Did We Get Here? A 15-minute episode explaining several kinds of gambling – numbers, lotteries, slot machines, and online gambling – and their surprising histories in the U.S. The episode explores how federal and state legalization of gambling has both generated tax revenue and contributed to the prevalence of gambling disorders today – especially in Pennsylvania. ~ with Modesola Olaniyi, Calil Morris, Camryn Harvie, and Eva Levy

Episode 3. Who's At Risk? A 17-minute episode exploring how someone’s risk of engaging in any gambling behavior today is shaped by a complicated system deeply rooted in racism and capitalism – including right here in Philadelphia. ~ with Ashley Duchi, Ashley To, Simran Rajpal, and Cristle Ike

Episode 4. College-Aged Gambling. An 18-minute episode interrogating the social and structural factors shaping the dramatic increase over the past ten years in “problem gambling” amongst men ages 18-24 in the U.S. Touching on sports betting, social media, gambling apps, and social life on college campuses, the episode shares some surprising facts about how and why college campuses have become “the front lines of a war on gambling.” ~ with Ray Lee, Min Jung, Valeria Arroyo, and Shums Lareef

Episode 5. What To Do? A 9-minute episode reviewing research on harm-reduction and “human-centered” approaches to decreasing problematic and pathological gambling in the U.S. The episode considers the strengths and limitations of approaches that target individual gamblers, like therapy, and public health approaches targeting whole populations, like setting machine limits in casinos. ~ with Will Han, Gabi Ryu, and Michael Wang

BWHA Series on College-Aged Gambling

by BWHA & HSOC students

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