it's a weird subject to talk about because we usually don't know in detail about the laws of the spiritual world
in theory if you believe in spirit and energetic matters it would affect our lives fully, without exception
but how to know for sure?
at the end of the day I agree that when discussing gambling it's better to be more pragmatic and direct instead of imagining too many things.
Science already has very well defined studies about dopamine addiction, I don't think it's spiritual. The biggest proof is that many games are made in a way that it gives the dopamine hits on users to get them hooked. Like the slots games where there are many flash lights, sounds, winning effects. It's why people can get addicted, because we are still a meat machine with the same DNA of our ancerstors that needed some cues to survive and get rewarded for that
Science has made a lot of things demystified, there are lots of things that are definitely not spiritual but due to lack of understanding some people think it is. Dopamine for example is something that pushes a lot of people to keep gambling but someone who isn't educated would think it's a spiritual force or something not ordinary. Sometimes dopamine is not the reason for addiction, greed is also a factor