Addiction is a disease and should be treated with serious caution.
Definitely. It is a serious problem among gamblers. Every party should contribute to support the way to recover the addicted gamblers. Not only their family but they also need helps from their close friends, experts, and neighborhood. If the addicted gamblers have been at a severe level, they must visit professionals or experts of mental health regularly.
Sometimes, addicted gamblers don't want to tell their family or friends because they don't want other people to know about their addiction. But somehow, their family can know that something has been happening to that person because they can see what he did every day closely so they can guess that person might get addicting to gambling.
Visiting professionals will help that person to solve the problem, but it will better if he can visit with his family so his family can know what they need to do to help that person. Having another activity is necessary to distract his mind from thinking about gambling so he can slowly leave gambling.