Addiction is the strongest challenge associated with gambling which requires serious attention to avoid regretting on the process and the easiest way to do away with addiction, and to do this, some precautions needs to be taken. To avoid addiction in gambling, some things must be avoided and those precautions are: eliminating greed while gambling because greed is the greatest enemy of all gamblers as it gives room for constant lost while gambling, secondly avoid staking much with little capital because once the capital is high there won't be room for the accumulation of more odd.
To be engaged with gambling is a bit dangerous, I agree. Gambling addiction is always kind of waiting for you around the corner. But that's how it is with things that make us happy - all of them are a bit dangerous. I think, the key here is not to abuse what is given to us to make us happy. When there's too much of something in your life, even if it makes you happy, it starts looking like an addiction and, actually, maybe it is.