Quote from: hubballi on August 31, 2018, 09:52:57 PM

Quote from: hahay on August 31, 2018, 09:25:15 PM

Quote from: tronghai12345 on August 31, 2018, 03:16:50 PM

It's not necessarily a disease but more like a drug. And just like most other drug, you can get addicted to it. And that would mean you would be spending all your time and effort to gamble which is bad for you.
A disease on the other hand is more like a disorder or a malfunction of a human part.

Addiction is one of the diseases that must be treated, not only in gambling, all kinds of things that are addictive, such as addiction to drugs, sex etc. are diseases. So addiction is not good and you have to treat it and leave your habit that has become addicted so that you are free from the bond if it really makes you tormented.

Drug addict can be cured by taking medical treatment but for gambling addiction their is no medicine to cure it, it is only cured by the will of the gambler who got addicted or until he is totally not lost all his investment he wont realize what he has lost in his life.

Not accurate. Drug addiction doesn't have a medical treatment. There's no drug that you can take and then all of a sudden your body is not looking for drugs anymore. Fentanyl, an opioid, is 100x stronger than morphine is now a trendy drug. There really is no meds that can take you off the drug but the medical treatments are rather for your withdrawals. Withdrawals are very painful and for fentanyl, you might experience it 3x per day. And that's what makes people addicted to it. Their body is literally looking for the drug and they need the drug in order to survive the day. Suboxone is the drug used for most opiate addiction.

Both doesn't really have a "cure" to it. Quitting drugs requires another drug (the suboxone for opiate addicts) as well as the willpower to not take another of that drug that you were once addicted to. While in gambling, it only requires willpower and no drugs at all. Which is harder then?

This is why whenever you watch real life documentaries of recovering addicts, they always tell their new members that "We're going to help you but you're gonna have to help yourself." The real help comes from within. The outside help is just there for support, so you have something to hold accountable for.