Many people thinks much about gambling addiction. But addiction is when you are no longer in charge or control of yourself. You cannot take a decision and stand by it. You have no mind of your own, so you are willing to sell your most important property in order to gamble.
This is a big disorder which requires both psychological and medical attention. But then this disorder doesn't happen spontaneously, it is a gradual process that will take the victim unaware.
Unknowingly, sometimes addicts never realize that they have become addicts, that's why people who become addicts are rather difficult to cure because they are not honest with themselves, even though by way of gambling they are not normal like other gamblers, they can no longer control themselves. that's why it's important to control yourself when gambling.
The solution is to be conscious addiction. If you are conscious of addiction, when you are tilting towards it, you will realise that you are deviating. But if you are not conscious of addiction, you will see yourself fall in it without knowing.
That is why I support people writing against addiction online, the menace of it and lots more.
Whenever you start gambling and thinking about it more than your job, know that you are addicted or fast becoming addicted.