Anyways, coming out from gambling addiction requires a deliberate effort, which especially must come from the gambler who is addicted to gambling him or herself.
Lets think of it this way, there is no way someone who is sick and does not agree that he or she is sick; will get better, except the family grabs him or her and force medication on him or her, and you all will agree with me that, forced medication is not possible when it comes to treatment of gambling addiction, and this is because, the addict must first know and agree that he or she is addicted to gambling, and also agree that he or she needs to be helped to come of the addiction, this is the only way treatment can be given and it will be effective, aside this, one can never find a solution to a problem he or she do not believe exist.
I highly agree with this. To get out of any kind of addiction, the person who is addicted himself should be the one taking the initiative to get out of his addiction. There are lots of cases where an addict is forcefully confined to remove his addiction but the result does not bode well, it is either the person commits suicide due to frustration of feeling oppressed or the rehabilitation doesn't have an effect on that person instead the person became more deeply addicted.
do you think, a parade like this will be effective in reducing the level of gambling addiction?
I don't think that it's going to be a no for me, parades definitely attracts people but the last thing that they're going to care about is the message that the parade delivers about stuff and in this case which is gambling addiction, they're better off doing this kind of stuff creating a TV show, look at Breaking Bad and other police dramas, they've somehow affected a certain percentage of the population about how they perceive police.
True, any kind of parade indeed attracts people but the message of the parade is forgotten the moment the last of the parade is seen. Unless something very appealing or attractive is seen on that parade, it will be easily forgotten in just a matter of minutes after the parade passes by.