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Could gamble success story be that betting has helped one to be free from a harmful addiction. Some people might be addicted to hard drugs or alcohol, which is damaging their health. In some cases, they might replace such harmful behaviour with gambling. If they successfully stop the harmful behaviour because of their gambling engagements, it could be called a gambling success story. Nevertheless, addicts getting free and winning big could also be called success in gambling.

Substituting addictions is never an option. It might appear to be helpful in some cases, as some therapists might even suggest that, but in reality it's something which should never be considered.

If someone who's used to hard drugs considers gambling to be the rescue, to some, the hard drugs have a big health effect on them compared to the damage gambling can cause to them.

But to me, they are all in the same phase; every form of addiction is entirely bad, if you ask me, unless it's in a situation where the addicted drug person considers gambling as a distraction but doesn't get addicted to gambling. At the end, only then can I consider it to be a success story.

It could, as already happened to a casual gambler who bets and wins a large amount, enough to get out of debt!
This could be considered a success story, right?
I personally know someone who was in debt with the Italian tax authorities and thanks to a win of only 30,000 euros he managed to repay the debt.
This is a great success with low risk, he simply got lucky with a 3 euro bet, we are talking about a casual gambler,
but how many like him? I think 0.0001%

That’s a wild story — turning €3 into €30,000 and clearing debt? Definitely a success, even if it's super rare. Not something to count on, but when luck hits, it can really change things.

Gambling winnings could be able to solve out things like be able to pay up debts, buying something that you do want or even that would be able to changed up your life forever depending on the significance of the amount that have won. If you do know on how to make use of those winnings on the right way or even lets say that you had paid off your debt in regardless of the amount that you have won. As long you do able to make use of those winnings on something that you do benefit out then thats the right decision that you have done. Success stories are possible but we do all know that losers are more than with those winners on which this is where we should be that careful on dealing up with it. There are just that those times that you've been that becoming that greedy at the time that you do hit up jackpot on which it causing up for you to bet those winning amounts back again to the casino and losing all the way, these are the typical scenarios that do happen into each individual and if you arent that careful on making up
decisions or trying out to utilize those wins in the right way then you will be having those regrets later on at the time that you have lose it all.