Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation, your spiritual leader or teacher is just a religious leader meant to handle spiritual cases and not the right one to handle such cases, I don't know about other societies but I've seen people in my region make such errors and it needs to be addressed.
So, i normally feel some type of ways when I read writeups that resonate with the topic in question... It pushes me into asking series of questions like -- are people really this daft in the specific regions where the write-ups are often made? Are they really ready for a discussion or they just want to dump their own fallacious beliefs on everyone else? Are they on a spell to not realize how delusional it becomes when you decide to alter the matters of life with divinity?
Religion has eaten so deep into people in the 21th century, that they don't even recognize who to consult and what to do in some situations. The only reason why they act that way is because some actually feel like a "god" was always behind and in support of them throughout their journey.