Well I don't know how this question will look like but I have to ask, because I need people's ideas in this situation that am in right now.
So here is my question, 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?
Remember it's tough for a family member and a friend to watch their person with gambling problem run into financial problems and refuse to help.
And am also having this thought that if you bail a family member or friend with gambling problem, that they don't have to face the financial problems and they will continue to gamble, adding to future problems.
In this situation, if I were to be you, whether or not I'll give him/her the money would depend on a few things. If I've warned or advised him before about his addiction and yet he refused, then there's not a single way I'll give him the money, but if we've never had any conversation before about his addiction for gambling, then I might give him the money, depending on how my relationship is with him, and then use that medium to advice him, and if such a thing happens afterwards, I definitely won't even respond to him.