Gambling addiction will always be closer to alcohol, drugs and other illegal drugs and we often see cases of someone who is ensnared by the law after being caught stealing money or robbing because they want to gamble again and the reason they steal the money is not just to gamble but to buy alcohol or drugs. and behind alcohol or drugs it is only an outlet for what they hate about themselves who cannot stop gambling but do not have family or friends who can help get rid of their addiction so they choose to destroy themselves by consuming illegal drugs or alcohol.
Another problem here is that all of this is just about irresponsible gambling which ends a person's life very badly in the long run and the story that we are discussing is one of the sufferings of gamblers who cannot stop their gambling activities or cannot gamble responsibly so they already become addicts very serious gambling.
Stealing to gamble? This is the height of it, why not steal to do business or better your life in other ways? I don't know how far this is true, but it might be true because I've seen people doing similar things, only that it's not as bad as this. The fact remains that when we gamble, we should gamble with sense and be sure of what we know and are doing, and gamble with what is not beyond ordinary. Gambling because of alcohol or stealing to gamble fully shows that these people are no more with their senses and the only remedy is for them to get help before it worsens. It's the responsibility of their close people to detect this and get them help, that's if they love them, and also the gambler's responsibility to be willing to change for the help to be effective.
I don't get the point of what you said, stealing to do business? That's ridiculous.
Anyways, as they have said above, people can do unimaginable things once they are consumed in gambling or any other vices. It is indeed the responsibility of the people around them to avoid these things from happening, however, this is not a simple thing to do. Most people hide what they are doing from their family and friends and keep everything from themselves. If this is the case, people around them can't easily figure things out what's going on with a person who's addicted to gambling.
When we are so addicted to gambling, we can do some unimaginable things which can have a great effect on us in time to come. We need to relax and torcus if we want to make money from gambling and not to keep becoming too desperate to win which can lead us to do things we are not meant to do. The great and successful gambler do not involve themselves in something that with hurt there reputable because they want to be a winning and profitable gambling. We need to take things gradually so that we don't over spend too much unnecessary.