It will still depend on the personality of the individual. Some of us will wait for the wake-up call before doing something productive in our lives. If this addict turned homeless for a long time all because of his gambling losses, he might be able to widely see what he did wrong and will finally wake up. This is if his personality thrives to make himself better.
For some addicts, they tend to dig deeper. Mess with the wrong crowd and even kill himself. Totally different character decides what their fate will be.
The bad thing about this is that when the call for attention does not arrive, how to do it? How can you react, it is very clear that when a player enters a casino and plays and spends, it represents a normal, common case that happens, that is the daily bread in a casino, there is nothing strange there, the strange thing is For a new player to start playing and win and win and make good money and then withdraw it, a casino is not alarmed because someone enters, leaves some money and leaves everything in the casino losing.
The casinos that worry when something like this happens is because they are regular clients, and they know how they bet, what amounts they spend and they try to protect them by calling them attention.