Going back, gambling and health has been a broad issue even before, but the main thing I could think of as a solution is proper control of time, funds, and emotion that we are giving off when gambling.
There no one is safe when they are gambling using their emotion as they will eventually make wrong and costly decision in the long run.
When a gambler is so emotional, that would lead him to gamble more as he cannot easily accept the loses, in fact he will gamble more to win back without knowing that he is putting himself on a higher risk.