According to medical science, the brain of a drug addict or a gambling addict is different from the brain of a normal person. An addict's brain works in such a way that he cannot accept normal actions or normal things as normal. As long as the person does not gamble or do drugs, his brain will not be normal. Gambling is not bad and every gambler needs to make sure he is fit for gambling. The biggest problem with gambling addiction is students who gamble at an underage age.
The family must be careful to ensure a good life for the child and ensure that the boy or girl does not get involved in gambling until they are of mature age. Also we have some responsibilities like we all know about gambling so if any person is given the idea of gambling then he will do well and if any person is given the idea of gambling he will become addicted.
Also, if someone is addicted then it is our responsibility to take all possible steps to get him out of that addiction.
I have been gambling since my school days and at some time I even had a gambling addiction, because I could not stop during a gambling session and kept playing until I ran out of money. In one gambling session I could spend about half of my salary. This experience helped me realize that gambling should be responsible and since that time I radically changed my views on gambling. Sooner or later, almost any gambler comes to the realization that if he does not want to have problems with gambling must limit their deposits and do not play gambling every day. If a gambler has not come to this understanding on his own, then he will help only experts.
That is why experience is called the best teacher, addiction is a very bad situation, none other than because the impact can be very significant on a person's life, as you have experienced where you do not hesitate at all to spend half of your monthly salary in just one game session and clearly it is very excessive, and the impact is that you will most likely have difficulty meeting all your daily needs.
From the case you experienced, I think that even though as we know it is always difficult to provide various suggestions that lead to goodness to addicted gamblers, in the end they will most likely experience the same thing as you, or what I mean is that maybe over time they will also realize that they have the wrong perspective on gambling and change their approach to be better, I am sure about that.