I was with one of my old friends yesterday and he was addicted to football gambling to the extent that he is finding it very difficult to sleep and do normal activities. He has won some of betting he has played on but correctly want to give it some time off. He is asking for general advice if drugs can help.
Categorically, I would say NO!, drugs can not help, drugs itself in addictive, there is no way you can manage a problem with another problem, if your friend start taking drugs in order to manage his gambling addictiveness, what if in the process, he becomes addicted to the drugs as well??
Have you paused to ask yourself the question above?
What I think he should do is to talk to people, let him open himself up and make new friends, both online and offline, let him find some other fun things to do with other people, both online and offline, some thing that will always make him forget about gambling for that day, as time passes, I believe he will gain more control over he's addiction.