Illinois Churches in Action

11/26/2025

🚨What you’re seeing here is Wheel of Fortune partnering with and promoting the DraftKings Casino ‘Multiplier Tournament,’ running November 24 through 28. A holiday-weekend gambling tournament promoted on a “family” game show.

For 50 years, families have watched this show together. Now it’s being used to push high-intensity online gambling to kids, teens, and older adults. A trusted piece of American family life has become an advertisement for addictive gambling — during the holidays, no less. This shows how deep predatory gambling has metastasized into everyday life in America🚨

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11/25/2025

Luke Niforatos, Executive Vice President of Smart Approaches to Ma*****na (SAM), warns that drug liberalization is being driven by powerful corporate interests, not public health. Speaking to Hungarian Conservative at the MCC Budapest Summit on the Global Drug Epidemic, he argues that high-potency c...

11/25/2025

The prevalence has plateaued but diagnosis challenges persist

11/25/2025

In recent months, progressive Democratic leaders like the incoming mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have proclaimed, “New York City is not for sale,” claiming to fight the o…

11/25/2025

Cannabis use disorder is on the rise

11/25/2025

Last week, the U.S. Congress voted to close a dangerous loophole in American law: the one that allows unregulated, intoxicating h**p products to be sold to kids in every corner of this country. Every

11/25/2025

Norfolk leaders say the city will still benefit — even if the amount is significantly less than early projections.

11/25/2025

Sports betting doesn’t always spiral dramatically — sometimes it wears people down quietly.

Across Illinois, providers are seeing more clients describe:
➡️ exhaustion
➡️ disrupted sleep
➡️ shame about “constant checking”
➡️ pressure to respond to every alert or live opportunity

This pattern is often tied to micro-bets — those rapid wagers that mimic the same compulsion loops found in continuous gambling.

When a client casually says,
“I’m just betting a few dollars at a time,”
it may be a sign of something deeper:
sports betting fatigue.

Naming this pattern can open the door to relief, boundaries, and honest conversations that help clients reconnect with their values and well-being.

11/25/2025

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has refused to take a stance against casinos coming into New York City, despite them being legalized through dishonest and corrupt...

11/25/2025

The University of Washington says that a condition that has been connected to chronic cannabis use has been recognized as a formal diagnosis.

11/19/2025

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3942

"Perception is important, and right now the NBA clearly has a perception problem. It might, too, have a trust problem," said Nick Pietruszkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Program Director of Sports Communications, Quinnipiac University.