drugs and gambling both destroy a person’s life but the way they do it is different, drugs directly harm the body and the brain, health gets worse, working ability decreases, family problems increase and the risk of crime and death comes very quickly, this kind of destruction is visible, it happens fast and everyone can understand that something very bad is happening.
on the other hand gambling destroys a person slowly, it starts with fun then turns into loss, at one point everything goes out of control, after losing money debts begin, lies increase, relationships break, mental stress and depression grow, self respect is lost, the most dangerous part of gambling is that a person does not even realize when they have entered the path of destruction, so it can be said that drugs take life quickly while gambling slowly takes away the whole life...
This often happens when people give up on life in general, at some point in time they bury their head in an addiction (or multiple) and decide that is what they will spend a lot of their time & money on. The trouble with an addiction like gambling is it can really mess with your mind, if you try to think about how much you spent on betting and how you'll quit if you just make it all back - you're never going to be free. If you decide you've got a problem and you're going to face it down, then you have to let the past go and everything spent on it to that point. It doesn't matter what you spent on it, you need to consider that an expensive lesson and avoid ever doing it again. If you cannot stick to casual, irregular, drinking or gambling, then you should probably stay away from it altogether.