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.
Drugs and gambling are very different from each other but they are also same because it is both addicting. "gambling addiction mainly due to loneliness and dissatisfaction?" No I dont think so.
As of my experience we become addicted to gambling because we become greed and we become tempted of this thing. We want to win the big price. Gambling is money. Money is temptation.
Okay, but let's take a look below the surface. Why exactly are we tempted? Because we think we need more money to be happy. And why do we think that? Because we are
not happy at the moment. So, if you were satisfied with your life and were feeling no loneliness or, in other words, you were feeling happy, you wouldn't think that you need more money to be happy, and hence the chances of becoming addicted gambler would be very small. Just think of the source of temptation and you'll see that in most cases it's dissatisfaction with your life.