It's still hurting somebody, What about your family?? Your hurting them emotional and financially. If you can't feed them then your hurting them.
It's not labeled as sickness in general but a mental sickness. If they can't control their selves then it's a sickness.
I agree here, if one is starving their family to gamble, then they are ill. But, it's not the gambling that's the problem, it's the person doing the gambling....One cannot blame the dice. Just like if somebody was laying on their butt watching Oprah all day instead of getting a job, you couldn't blame the tele but the lazy creep watching the tele!