If I understand what you guys are discussing about correctly, I would say it's definitely better to lock up an addicted gambler physically, lock him up in a single room with a very small window, and take away every gadget from him, no phone, no radio, no nothing, just him and his mind to wander and think 🤔
Leave him there for like a month or two, I believe that by the time he comes out, he must have had a brain that has ressetted itself.
you are sick dude. seriously, wtf is wrong with you? you are literally suggesting torturing someone to cure him from addiction.
that's not how you help an addict, you are just turning him from a gambling addict into a mentally ill person.
in any place that care about human rights, if you do this to someone (whether they consent to it or not) you are going to fucking jail.
He has probably taken the idea of what is done in some cases with alcohol or drug addicts, which is to isolate them from their environment in order to break the addiction, in a much lighter way than the way he puts it, but this is of no use if you don't radically change things when you return to your routine. If you go back to having the same stimuli, apart from having been ‘tortured’ as you say, for a couple of months, the most normal thing is that when you return you enter into a gambling binge in which you lose until you leave your great-grandchildren in debt.