I never trust such stories because most of them are self made to encourage people to gamble or make people believe that gambling is not an addicted game and even if you are addicted you can be cured too. The fact is that gambling is very risky game and it is impossible to get cure from gambling addiction. Even if you get cured, most of the cases, its too late for you that you have already lost most part of your money.
True that. People see casino advertisements and winners testimonials of a huge lottery win but forget the fact that equally same number of people lost the ticket price and actually contributed to that person's win. It is a game or luck and because people like to play with their luck they want to gamble which leads to addiction.
Now most people are not aware of the bad effects of gambling because very few people actually show the debts that gamblers go into or the social problems of gambling. I am not saying that everyone falls into such problems but many do.