Topic: What I learnt from a crackhead about gambling - page 10. (Read 1409 times)

The two are chronic addiction but one has a lifetime threat on one's health related issues, if you're a gambler and being addicted, you're still more better than a chronic liquor addicts who also gambles, he may loose his chances of living long if his health issues get complicated, the two are not what one should be found with, i still wonder why some often refers to them as way of enjoying life, being addicted is bad, you can gamble or drink but moderately and not until you're been addicted in it.

Drug addiction compared to gambling addiction is almost the same, you are ruining your life by destroying your physical health, mental health with drugs while gambling is when your finances are affected, for sure it would cause problems in providing your needs as well the relationship of the gambler to their family. He's good at managing money which might be the reason for budgeting his money for drugs, you can consider it as a skill but you only acquire that kind of skill when you are addicted, for they have the problem of resisting the urge you would really need to be rehabilitated.

I'll be honest, cause if I were gonna have a conversation with someone addicted to drugs, I would be scared for my safety than the story itself, cause you would never know what's going on in their minds. They might attack you cause they need money for drugs, which is applicable to gamblers they might use violence just to have money.

Doesn't he realize that drug addiction is worse than gambling?
This is what I know about drugs even though I've never tried them: Damage to health, become like a crazy person, rehabilitation is quite difficult and long, plus drugs are illegal almost all over the world so the risk is greater than gambling, even though the similarities are almost similar but in my opinion gambling is worse than the risk.

I don't know why he is so proud of being addicted to drugs, is it because he thinks gambling is a faster way to spend money than drugs?
It is clear that both are very bad but my own view is that gambling addiction is better and can still be overcome even though it is equally bad.

the reason why the junkie doesn't gamble so much is that he needs to budget his funds for his next consumption of meth. if he loses half of his capital he will decide to stop because he will buy the rest for his daily dose.

and i the junkie wins, he will also decide to stop playing because he already has enough to buy for his next dose. take it from a very experienced junkie  
there used to be billiard tables new my house in my hometown, the crackheads stayed up all night playing billiards, and once they win, they smoke crack after til morning.

The story depends on how the changed addict suffered while in addiction. It's never easy to be an addict. Whether gambling or drug. Both goes hand in hand for some people. Comparing them, isn't necessary, because while concluding on a fact, using one person's experience isn't enough. Many people have done crazy things out of addiction. Be it gambling or drugs. Mainly when it's related to money. Drug requires money to purchase at all cost. And the price is fixed, unlike in gambling. The addict can change the amount they play everyday, depending on their bank roll. But if a drug addict isn't equipped with the amount his substance costs he can't get it. Hence, he'll have to do anything possible to get on his substance. If addiction is rated by stages, drug addiction is higher than gambling addiction. As gambling addict can move ahead to become a drug addict. And it's rare to find a drug addict, that goes back to gamble. They'll be lost in the confusion that drug brings. While battling with friends and money too. Gambling addicts barely have a click of friends who are addicts, unlike drug addicts who always have other friends they can hang out with and do drugs. Which also lands them into bigger troubles like going out to rob and do illicit businesses. One addiction can lead to another. Why the person in a way is right about being happy about not being a drug addict, is because he's known that even when you escape the drug addiction. It's almost impossible to escape the drug friends, they got while living the bad life.

We don't know what will happen to a gambling addict because someone who is addicted to gambling cannot predict what they will do. Maybe it is true that gambling addicts are more dangerous than drug addicts but still, if they are addicted, it will not be good for their health, especially their mental health. His mental condition must be disturbed because all he can think about is doing the things he already does every day and he doesn't want to do anything else. That's why when we feel like we're starting to get addicted, we have to immediately stop ourselves from the activities we've been doing all this time and try to find out how to cure it so that this small addiction doesn't turn into a big one.

I didn’t experience trying drugs so I can’t comment personally but statistically wise then addiction to drugs is more addicting than being addicted to casino since drugs directly attack your brain using chemicals to give you synthetic happiness while casino games gives you entertainment and happiness base on your appreciation to the game which means it’s up to you if you will be addicted on casino games while being addicted to drugs is guaranteed once you try it since it’s chemicals that directly attach your brain.

Also it’s very hard to get out from drug addiction compared to gambling addiction because the chemicals will be remembered by your brain for a long time while casino can give you a heart break once you lose big time that might makes you stop gambling at your own will.

Both are bad and one cannot be better than the other but there's danger facing a drug addict than a gambler, drug addicts can harm or beat you even if you are close to them without them knowing what they have done because they are under the influence of drugs.
Drug addicts attack the mind and the behavior of the addicted they have no respect for anyone, if there are reports of crimes like killing and robbery police first check if they are under the influence of drugs, compared to gambling addicts they are saner and they are conscious of what they are doing, something you cannot find to people addicted to drugs when they are on their high.

All addictions share similarities and can all be equally difficult to quit, It may seem easier to quit drugs because society kicks against drugs addiction on all forms but may be lenient at times with gambling to the extent that they permit it. So someone who is heavily addicted to gambling but is still able look okay and composed will never be criticized for their addictions so they carry it longer than a drug addict. Gambling addiction will even be harder to break if gambling is legal in your country.

Your story brings an important but often overlooked fact about addiction. The person behind the thing or action, not just the thing or action itself. Although drugs and gambling are different, they are both about losing control and wanting to escape. What this means is that drug users seem more careful with their money than gamblers. Could the fun of gambling be greater than the value of the money, unlike drug use, where the cost is always there? It says a lot that the recovered addict is afraid of gambling addiction. That's not all. There's also healing and the fear of going back to using drugs. Addiction affects the mind in all of its forms. This gambler's death shows how dangerous addiction can be. This story about people is about grief, battle, and sometimes effects that can't be undone.

people addicted to drugs, they tend to be violent when they consume drugs and when they don't have money to buy drugs, they will sell anything they have and easily enter the world of crime, things like criminal organizations that sell human organs and become When laundering money, they recruit drug addicts and give them some drugs as payment, and this means that the person addicted to drugs doesn't stop working for drug traffickers. Dude, we have to be honest, I believe that we all have families, neighbors and live where there are people around.

so we all can easily do a very simple little research without spending money and a lot of time, all we need to do is observe our relatives and neighbors how many of them are addicted to gambling and how many of them are addicted to drugs. I believe the result will be that the number of drug addicts will be 3x or more than 6x in relation to the number of gambling addicts. and when we compare the level of destruction that a drug addict causes in relation to the gambling addict, we will see that the drug addict causes more than 10x more destruction than the gambling addict

I don't believe this, it is scarier to meet a guy who is addicted to drugs than gambling, some of the heinous crimes committed are from people who are addicted to drugs, they commit killing, rape, and stealing because of the effect of drugs.
Drug addicts do not know what they are doing because their mind is clouded and many of them do not remember what they commit when they are under the influence of drugs, compared to gamblers who are more sane than drug addicts.
But in the end, and the bottom line both addictions are bad and we should see to it, that we do not become addicted to these two things or any one of our family
Both addictions are harmful to one's self, their family, and the community.

Thanking God that he is more addicted to drugs than gambling. Wow. Ain't it better to thank God if you have none of those?
Anyway, it's true that gambling addiction is an expensive habit unlike drug addiction where you get high or low then you stop for a while but what else can you do after that? No job, no food, no nothing.
I have seen gambling addicts who can still manage to do their jobs, 8-hour day job and just do the gambling at night and their faces don't look so bad so they can get a job easily unlike those crackheads whose faces cannot be distinguished anymore.
When it comes to the spending limit, yes gambling can get you broke in a day but as long as you are still on the right to not do anything bad when you waste all your money then it's still okay. What about those crackheads whose drugs are already affecting their minds and might make them do something bad?

No addiction is more addictive than the other...all of these depends on the level of severity. On any addiction spectrum, we have from mild, moderate to severe. And not that two addictions can exist but with varying degree of severity. For example, the crack head may be moderately addicted to crack and mildly addicted to gambling.

A drug addict will spend more money on drugs than on gambling. So it is natural that he is gambling responsibly to use the other cash to fix himself up. Drug addicts rarely have good food. Next time you have a conversation with him, ask him when last he ate.



No need to be scared if you are doing things right. Just say away from drugs and gamble responsibly. You will be fine.

Addicted to drugs will ruin your health, body, money and other people. While addicted to gambling will ruin your money and other people. This means drug addiction has more effect to gambling addiction. At least a gambling addict who already lose all of his money can start his new life to get a job and start to save money. While a drug addict need a lot time in rehabilitation and his heath isn't good anymore which make he hard to start his new life.

Addiction is just as bad as drugs or gambling there is nothing better that I know of.

Not sure drug addicts are more responsible than gambling, because it's bad behavior so it's hard to believe them with such talk, I know someone who is addicted to drugs but he is never responsible money is always spent on drugs, so I don't believe anything they say about his responsibility.

As many people said above my comment that gambling addiction will have a financial crisis while drugs will damage health and the person will go crazy with mental damage.

     -   They're both addicted; perhaps the difference is in how they affect our brains and bodies. Drugs definitely have a negative impact on our physical health when we become addicted to them. While gaming has an effect on stress and emotions,

Some of the distinctions between these two are as follows:


And the only way for these two to aid someone with an addiction is to contact doctors, therapists, or the addict's close family and friends.

How Gambling and Drugs triggers the person?

An addict is an addict either in drug or gamble. Both of them have the same effect. What an addict gambler can do to satisfy his gambling urge is also what a drug addict can also do. But the difference lies on the individual in question. These two activities can squander huge amount of money withing few hours.

Drug are gamble are life destroyers when not done with caution, but I think that gamble should have less effect on man's health than drug because drug is something internally, that after the drug addict had be rehabilitated, there will still be a side effect on his health. Gambling, when the addicted gambler quits, he doesn't need to worry about any health challenge.

They say that mental addictions are the worst ones... the thing with psychological addictions they have a much bigger effect on our thoughts and emotions, and that reflects on our bodies as well. Physical addictions are easier to identify and treat, once you get rid of what you are using you are on the halfway to stop thinking about it, but mental addictions are more insidious and pervasive.

Simply said, mental addictions are going way deeper than physical ones, so we can say they are more challenging than physical ones, and it's really hard to overcome them, I would say harder than physical ones.

In my view, both are the same with different effects physically and mentally.

Gambling addiction is a continuous loss of control over gambling. The more he continues gambling, the deeper he gets into this addiction. Aside from that, it's considered a cognitively based attitude that characterizes gamblers causing them to have a negativity with their belief about their own ability to win at gambling. The more reason why they will keep on playing to reverse this kind of thinking.

Addiction to drugs is considered a disease, whatever you do, you can't easily be able to stop using despite any harm it causes. Taking illegal drugs is a serious abuse of your health. Causing serious health problems and can even lead to death.