Is it better to avoid addiction in the first place by completely devoiding yourself of doing that activity instead of playing and getting addicted only to try and recover afterwards?
Prevention is always better than a cure for anything that relates to addiction, but that doesn't mean that you will need to avoid playing in casinos.
Prevention in gambling is all about avoiding situations that will lead you to spend more than you can afford to lose, which will result in chasing your losses.
This is a very good point. If you want prevention about gambling addiction, gambling is not what that should be prevented, the addiction should be what that should be prevented. No one should start gambling because they want to make money from it, they should gamble for fun instead. With this, they can gamble and prevent gambling addiction, instead of not gambling, depriving themselves from the fun they can
haveget from it.