Hmmm interesting, "people actually depend on gambling to make money " this is a statement I don't like seeing but notwithstanding some Hippocrates feel they can actually make steady money from gambling where as the case is different meaning gambling actually makes money from you on a daily basis. I hate to see people taking gambling as a way to escape from your financial problems because has made many folks become debtors but that I believe happens to only folks that see it as a must-do affair #addiction
Just as much as you dislike it, I don't think anyone is fully in agreement that a gambler should see gambling as a means of escaping their financial problems. Gambling can instead contribute to their financial problems, like being in debt, just as you have mentioned. Although some have taken the risk and got favored with a heavy win, some people have also taken a big risk in gambling, which has landed them in big trouble. Last week I read a thread (I think it was on the Nigerian local board) where a mother and her son were sentenced to prison for gambling off a huge amount of money that was not theirs. Also, there have been a lot of stories on the gambling discussion board about people who have landed themselves in more trouble because they gambled with money that was not their own.
I once tried to stop someone who is addicted to gambling but they keep promising that they will stop for good because have seen the damages that gambling has done to their life and the yet I was shocked when I found them doing the same thing again.
Gambling addiction is very terrible and probably unstoppable when someone gets addicted to it, it is a very bad thing to get addicted, maybe I've not seen those who are addicted to drugs and I may never be able to compare the two but gambling addiction is terrifying.