Have you been able to resist the addiction and not let gambling consume you?
Of course, it is needed for all of us to do that thing. It requires us to do that more so if we are so addicted to gambling. It's like trading without using our emotions to trades. In gambling, resisting the addiction. What I'm doing was using my money that is okay for me to lose. That's how I gamble.
If a lot of gamblers can think like that, maybe there are no bad effects from play gamble. Because what make us do bad thing because of gamble is addiction and then make us want to play and play again until we lose all our money.