But telling someone to their face or worse, to someone else, that one is an addict, as if it were diagnosed fact, can be wrong and very harming to one's reputation.
I think a real addict doesn't have much to do with reputation anymore because if he does, he won't have to get to the level of addict, he would place some limit to himself because at that point he is still in control of himself and emotion which makes him to be cautious of his actions. Someone is an addict because he has lost self control to limit himself on his gambling playing habit. Therefore, having reputation is not visible for an addict, that is why giving them help is mostly by initially out of their will , that means the third party has to act for them by taking the decision to help him out of it.
An addicted gambler should not find it offensive when they call him by what he is, which we means there are many things we do that aren't proper and we know but couldn't avoid them because we don't know to do without them even as they are things that hurt our lives, gamblers needed to be treated with humility and regards but they don't know how they have already lost this through their addictions because people sees us and learn from what we do if they are right and talk about them if they aren't good enough for appraisal either we like it or not.