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Instead of locking someone up for addiction, take them to rehab.
yeah ga can help and there are 90 day 180 day programs.
My dad had life long problems with gambling and died pretty much broke.
he never wanted to stop.
he is the reason i am very careful with risking bets. I take long pauses.
and make very deliberate moves.
The children of addicts turn out to be either addicts to the same habits a parent of theirs had because of influence from growing up around such parents, or they take the life of their parents as an example of what they never want to become and become very watchful never to go down that same road.
Individuals who give their excuse that because their parents were gambling addicts, hence they are gambling addicts, I consider immature because they are hiding behind the excuse of being influenced by their parents when actually they had a choice in front of them either to follow down the paths their parents went or to take a life lesson from their parents.
That a parent or a guardian is an addict to a habit, say gambling, should never be a reason to become one.
To bad for them if they used that excuse since they have their own lives and they can decide what's best or worse for them. If they choose to follow that path where they see their parents struggle because of addiction then provably the same situation will happen to them.
But if they choose the better side which is to avoid experiencing this situation then provably that their life would became more better compare to what happen to their parents.