How New Jersey plans to tackle teen gambling addiction

🎰 A bill aims to have NJ high schools teach kids about the risks of gambling

🎰 Physical education and health instructors would teach the course

🎰 Compulsive gambling among teens is coming more and more prevalent

TRENTON — A bill making its way through Trenton would require each high school in New Jersey to incorporate instruction on the potential risks of compulsive gambling into the curriculum for students.

Co-sponsor of the bill, S-3666, state Sen. Shirley Turner, D-Mercer, says gambling among teens has become more prevalent ever since online sports betting came into existence.

“Those numbers have dramatically increased because every child has a cell phone now, and also, they have friends who are able to get accounts because they are over 21, or they have relatives whose…