Is Gambling addiction a disease?

[M1nd1nvest]

Yes it is, I know a few people who suffer for it, and it hurts not only the one who gamble but their entire family.

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[Zabrielle]

It is somewhat like a disease that need to be cure otherwise it will destroy your self your life. Addiction is no good, any time of addiction is not good at all. Self discipline and family support can help

[St4yInTh3D4rk]

Addiction is a psychological disorder so it can be called as disease.

If someone really addcited to gambling then he can't get out from that by himself he need to take medications to recover from that so it is a disease.So people need to be aware of while gambling and keep time limit to avoid addiction.If the bad run continues then leave the gambling on that day and comeback again.

Yes, gambling addiction can be considered a disease because the victim will need special care if he wants to cure it. But there are levels in addiction. For those who are at the lowest level, the possibility to cure an addiction will feel easier than those who are at an acute one.

Yep,there are different levels in addiction.If someone finds that he is getting addicted in the early stages then he can get out from that easily and can continue to play the gambling as well but the serious addict people need to completely stay away from the any types of gambling to get out from it or else it will make them more worse.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

Yep,there are different levels in addiction.If someone finds that he is getting addicted in the early stages then he can get out from that easily and can continue to play the gambling as well but the serious addict people need to completely stay away from the any types of gambling to get out from it or else it will make them more worse.

I agree but not only to get out of it. Once they have recovered, they need to stay away from gambling for life, the same way a recovered alcoholic mustn’t try a sip for the rest of his life, because it would lead to the same old self-destruction pattern.

[noormcs5]

I am not really a gambler but I heard about people who can't quit it and keep losing lots of money. Do you think the attitude to gambling addiction should be the same as to drug addiction?
Should the government forbid gambling and treat somehow those who are addicted?
Or maybe it should be left up to an adult? I mean, should people decide on their own whether they need to gamble or not.
What do you think?

Appropriate it seems like a disease but i will clear it that Gambling is not a disease our Addiction of gambling is like a disease. I was know about it that addiction is a disease and in most of the gambling threads i used this word of Disease for addiction in gambling.
It is because addiction has no solution it is like a cancer disease and it is last stage of it and we can't return from it in our life. But basically it is our fault that we come in this level and become addicted. 

[St4yInTh3D4rk]

Yep,there are different levels in addiction.If someone finds that he is getting addicted in the early stages then he can get out from that easily and can continue to play the gambling as well but the serious addict people need to completely stay away from the any types of gambling to get out from it or else it will make them more worse.

I agree but not only to get out of it. Once they have recovered, they need to stay away from gambling for life, the same way a recovered alcoholic mustn’t try a sip for the rest of his life, because it would lead to the same old self-destruction pattern.

Yes,if the serious addict after recovered from that addiction then he need to stay away from that forever or else he will again get addicted to it.But all is about our self control if the people who has the control over his mind then he can gamble and keep time limit to avoid addiction again.

[MAJICOIN]

If we do gambling for a good reason like it is also a kind of entertainment but do not be so addicted to this gambling is a good way to enjoy you in a platform which you can not enjoy at your home and the crypto coins are very good for this many people do online casino and many people do gambling but it will good if we just practice this with fun and the gambling will become the disease when you are purely addicted to this so addiction is not good while the doing of gambling just for fun is good .

[jassanpary]

It is somewhat like a disease that need to be cure otherwise it will destroy your self your life. Addiction is no good, any time of addiction is not good at all. Self discipline and family support can help

Yes, gambling is a disease because those who have addicted to gambling suffer a lot, they will start losing interest in other things and also they feel gambling most important than family and their friends. Gamblers feel insecure when they start to lose in gambling that can be also considered as a disease.

[bitcoinmasterlord]

Yep,there are different levels in addiction.If someone finds that he is getting addicted in the early stages then he can get out from that easily and can continue to play the gambling as well but the serious addict people need to completely stay away from the any types of gambling to get out from it or else it will make them more worse.

I agree but not only to get out of it. Once they have recovered, they need to stay away from gambling for life, the same way a recovered alcoholic mustn’t try a sip for the rest of his life, because it would lead to the same old self-destruction pattern.

Yes,if the serious addict after recovered from that addiction then he need to stay away from that forever or else he will again get addicted to it.But all is about our self control if the people who has the control over his mind then he can gamble and keep time limit to avoid addiction again.

I think if any person recovered from the gambling addiction he knows how to control his feelings because without controlling his feeling he will never come back from gambling addiction. there are some people playing gambling after they recovered from addiction but they learned how to play gambling and when to stop and how to avoid addicting to this gambling.

[Rinsend]

Not a disease but rather a disorder or mental disorder like what the WHO did with gaming addiction lately (it is now considered that video game addiction is a mental disorder). I think gambling is much more serious than those things, a gambling addict can lose money or even everything he had.

Well for me diseases here mean the same as mental disorder, because when we talk about gambling addicts, we will talk about their mentally ill. Mental illness is what is meant as a disease. Mental treatment is not easy, there is no pill-like medicine that can treat it, mental illness should be treated with mental again and slowly.

[Betwrong]

Health officials say that gambling addiction is without a doubt a brain disease, so yes it is a disease. There are drugs called dopamine agonists which, among other side effects, cause compulsive gambling. I've never used dopamine agonists myself, but a friend of mine was suffering Restless legs syndrome (RLS) and he was prescribed with those drugs and indeed he developed a gambling addiction. I don't know if it's a coincendense because he was gambling a lot before too, but he says that things have become worse after he started taking the drugs. Generally speaking, if you have to take dopamine agonists you better stay away from gambling at all, while you are taking the drugs.

[sheenshane]

Health officials say that gambling addiction is without a doubt a brain disease, so yes it is a disease. There are drugs called dopamine agonists which, among other side effects, cause compulsive gambling. I've never used dopamine agonists myself, but a friend of mine was suffering Restless legs syndrome (RLS) and he was prescribed with those drugs and indeed he developed a gambling addiction. I don't know if it's a coincendense because he was gambling a lot before too, but he says that things have become worse after he started taking the drugs. Generally speaking, if you have to take dopamine agonists you better stay away from gambling at all, while you are taking the drugs.

So, while at an early stage we must avoid that problem, it's simple just having a mindset or self-control in gambling to avoid that kind of disease of gambling. Yes, you are right sir a disease of the mind that needs a serious attention if having a gambler addict maybe his not curable in a just easy way, maybe doctors can do that.
Cause of addiction depends on you how to manage yourself, don't let gambling controlled you must control gambling.

[seven2smoke1]

Yes it is, I know a few people who suffer for it, and it hurts not only the one who gamble but their entire family.

I agree with you, Gambling addiction is too dangerous and we can call it a disease, A lot of people around the world suffer from it, They lose a lot of precious things because of it, They have a lot of troubles with their families and have a lot of financial problems. I know a few of them has reached the situation to sale their own property like car and home to play gambling.

[reinielle26]

I am not really a gambler but I heard about people who can't quit it and keep losing lots of money. Do you think the attitude to gambling addiction should be the same as to drug addiction?
Should the government forbid gambling and treat somehow those who are addicted?
Or maybe it should be left up to an adult? I mean, should people decide on their own whether they need to gamble or not.
What do you think?

I think the government should forbid gambling. It depends on the people if they will continue to gamble.  Those who will violate it should have a punishment and it depends on the number of times that he violated. And they should be treated because addiction is a disease. It will be difficult for them to quit so the government should help them cured.

[AjithBtc]

Being alcoholic is an addiction, there are people who cannot think, talk, react or keep himself active without consuming alcohol. Same kinda people are there with gambling as well, these people can't think of a day without getting into any of the gambling events. Even after regular loss, they can't stay away at least for a short term. This makes gambling to be a disease with some personalities.

[mrcash02]

All the addictions have similarities, all addicted people have common behavior, but the things on what people get addicted are different and I believe there should be different ways to deal with each of these things. I don't think gambling should be banned from countries because some people are addicted, but I think drugs should be.

Gambling is benefical for a society in some aspects. It generates wealthy, jobs, third party services, it's the industry that makes real income distribution. The main players are the rich guys and that is the way they spend their money heavily, distributing it to others via gambling... So in countries where gambling is banned because it's a disease and people are weak, the society is losing a big chance of boosting their local economy.

[Saveplus]

Being addicted is hard to avoid when people did not know how to manage his responsibilities in their finances.It should be a diseases to those people who cant control and even repeating playing even though they have full of debts.

[DU18]

I think it's a serious disease when you can't come back from gambling.In one side,you are losing your money but still you haven't feel that you should stay out of gambling.That's called real disease of gambling.But if you can come.back from gambling, I don't think it's disease anymore.

[yvesp110]

Being addicted is hard to avoid when people did not know how to manage his responsibilities in their finances.It should be a diseases to those people who cant control and even repeating playing even though they have full of debts.

It is always a disease. It is independent of the nature and situation of a person. It doesn’t even matter whether someone have limit himself in gambling, someone is coming to casinos only to get entertainment and fun, someone is join this harmful game for earing some money. Such cases and many others, gambling never leave anyone until it makes him a full-fledged bankrupt.

[livingfree]

Being addicted is hard to avoid when people did not know how to manage his responsibilities in their finances.It should be a diseases to those people who cant control and even repeating playing even though they have full of debts.

It can be considered as mental illness or something that is really a disease because you are doing it that much. It's hard to avoid if you don't have the will to avoid and stop it. But if you wish to quit and not to have this type of addiction or disease, you better get yourself something better in gambling so that you will not be ending up addicted in gambling.