Disease can be passed to another person or get spread and addiction doesn't do that. It could be categorized as a mental problem that range from mild to a very serious addiction on gambling.
Yeah and mental problem is a disease. So gambling addiction is disease. Well maybe you do not think of mental problems as disease, but I do. Gambling addiction must be cured, if it is extreme and the gambling addict is aware he is addicted and wants to quit, rehab can be a solution, but if you want to slowly in his own way can also work, it's just that you should be more patient and should not easily give up.
It is a form of mental disease. I really hate addiction to gambling because it once destroyed our family. All our properties were gone into thin air because of my dad's addiction to gambling. I was very young then but I understand everything. It pained me a lot to see that we sold our house and lot to cover the debts of my father. We left the place and start to zero again. I hope it will not happen again to us.
Yes gambling addiction is considered a brain disease because the losses in gambling have become so troubling and disturbance to the mind of the gambler. It causes depression which lead to mental problem. Gambling addiction has been recognized as an actual brain disease, by the mental health and medical community.
I would not consider it as a disease but just some form of psychological defect as the case may be. What happens is that gambling has a way of trying to gain control and once it is able to go through with that and take over your emotions and you let it do that easily, it would be hard to get out from.
It is not just gambling, as this is applicable to other things such as sex, drugs, alcohol, name them. It triggers somethings in you to just always want it more and if you realize that and still let it gain the best of you, then it becomes a problem.