Imagine that there is such a rehabilitation clinic for people who are addicted to gambling. Now imagine what they treat there without the use of pharmacology.
The main doctors there are gambling specialists, whose task is to convince you that you do not need to gamble. Your task, for example, is to prove that the patient most likely has a disordered game. In order to have long-term income, you need to have a gaming system. And not just a system, but a fairly innovative system of forecasting and risk management.
I try to enter into your state of dilemma with regards to the topic and all I could find is a very difficult situation right here.
Now this person isn’t sick, don’t need drugs to calm down at times, isn’t having itches or having to tear themselves up occasionally but rather, just a zeal to make money through short means.
I think we already have a solution of treatment for these persons and that is, therapy. We might not need a doctor but, therapists and having to stop these persons from actually going about to make money for themselves by creating an environment (rehab center) where they just live day to day, eat and is just being spoken to and listened to wouldn’t help them.
Remember, what pushes most gamblers is the zeal to make money and that’s how the addiction is easily developed, when you are about this pathway.
Now, having to hold them captive in such rehab centers would only create in their minds a different kind of problem. They start to think everyday that they aren’t making money, are wasting their time and aren’t allowed to live. It seems bad because, these are people that wants to make money.
They don’t need a place where they are kept away from society, they need to be in the society because they aren’t a danger to society but themselves. So, they should be in society and have therapy sessions, with a manager for his/her account with family and friends by their side to help.