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Yesterday I watched a video about addiction on youtube: https://youtu.be/ao8L-0nSYzg. It was a real surprise to me that according to recent research people are addicted to drugs mainly because they can't bond well with people and are not able to live a satisfying life. The research shows that when an addicted person appears in a loving and caring environment, the addiction kind of disappears (even heroin addiction). I wonder what are your thoughts on this matter and whether you think you could say the same about gambling addiction.

Gambling addiction is different from drug addiction in terms of reasoning from someone who is into it. Addiction in gambling is because people are dissatisfied with what they already won in a gambling, and tend to lose it all even if they know they are not winning the game.

I think that gambling addiction is pretty similar to drug addiction, I mean it's the same chemicals that are released in the brain as when you do drugs.
What you're describing is a symptom of gambling addiction, not the root cause.

I'd say it's certainly possible that people turn to gambling and get addicted because they are dissatisfied with their life;

yes, gambling is more than just the game itself because of the addiction. I think most people start gambling initially for fun and sometimes they get carried away.

Yeah but the question is why they get carried away. I think loneliness could play a big part in that, because, why would you spend much time on gambling in the first place if you have good social relationships in your life?

Now, I also think that in most of the cases, problem gamblers end up choosing for gambling rather than their partner/friends, but that might be because those relationships weren't good or stable to begin with.

Just speculating here, might want to read some actual research about this.