~If you have a family member or a friend with gambling problem, as in he or she is so addicted to gambling to an extend what he or she thinks about is nothing but gambling, if he or she ran into financial problems and come to you to loan he or her money. are you going to loan the person the money?
If I were you,
I will never loan her money. In many occasions, I always state that we must gamble with safe money. Loan money isn't a part of safe money, we must gamble with our own money. And it should be not a big amount of money, too. Whenever we have spent all the allocation for gambling, it is better to stop temporarily.
Even worse for the addicts, it is better to recover his addiction firstly. If you know that one of you family members addicted to gambling, you need to suggest her and even accompany her to the doctor. If you loan her money, she will never recover the addiction problem. Even if she wants to gamble again after she recovers, she must promise that she will never do the same problem.