Gambling is addictive because when you win the "reward" will make yourself happy thus making you bet more but even if you are losing ,your mind is overtaking yourself to think that your still in control of the game even if its not. It is like drugs that when you use big amount your body can tolerate it and it is the same with gambling when you always gamble its hard to stop your mind will find that chemical or thrill when you stop and will cause a withdrawal.
I think so it's really hard to understand for addictive person to make on losing streak, actually mind always say that we can make comeback and will get succeed to take back all of our loses from that casino, this behavior indicate about addiction of gambling.
To be precise, not money is the root of all evil but the LOVE of money is the root of all evil things. And that is not even in the proverbs but in 1 Timothy 6:10
That is the people's mindset that if they gamble they can have a very big profit as they gamble but it becomes wrong in the long run.
Instead of winning, they are recovering their loses that tends them to become more addicted.
I think even if some other people have been using some biblical term here I think it is not really that bad and he is still sticking with the topic of addiction well even if you are saying that there are other religion in this thread and I think you are saying that we should separate religion and the topic about drugs, I think he can not separate the topic about the faith of other people and that is base on their own knowledge, especially addiction towards gambling is a problem here and people with these kind of state needs caring and counseling from other people especially a prayer just might help!
Well you may never know the power of a certain prayer and most of the time when a person has been given a bigger problem on his life then that would be the only time he will seek GOD, but we are truly sinful in our ways that is why there will be a large number of people that are addicted to gambling that would try not to think about GOD and carry on his sinful ways and getting with his lust, greediness, and the more pleasure there is they would just cling to that!
