i dont consider recovering your looses an addiction if he meant to say that.
Ofc he needs to risk it but to follow the profit he will have to do it at all costs.
If you are recovering your losses, it is either you are addicted already or you are just on your way to getting addicted, and it is just a matter of time before you end up reaching that final destination where you will get trapped in that your pursuit for loss recovery.
It has never ended up well for those who are possibly trying to recover their loss and it never will because it is the mindset that you brought into gambling in the first place that would make you to ever consider trying to recover loss which is more like trying to push your luck harder for winning, and that is something terrible.