Experts stress link between online gaming and gambling addictions

Youth gambling is a rising problem. And experts say, it can start with the controller in your child’s hand.Gaming and gambling is one of the main topics at a state conference on problem gambling this week.The Chief of Problem Gambling Services says many video games require players to pay to get to higher levels or get rewards.“When you are programming a brain to get excited about money, play reward, money, play, reward, that’s gambling,”said Stacey Frohnapfel-Hasson.A new