Gambling Addiction

Gambling addiction, also know as pathological gambling and compulsive gambling, can be just as devastating as addiction to drugs or alcohol. Many gambling addicts lose their money, job, family, friends, and physical health to this disease. Like alcohol and drugs not everyone who engages in gambling develops an addiction to it and many people are able to enjoy it occasionally as part of a healthy lifestyle. Unfortunately for gambling addicts, the compulsion to gamble becomes a predominating force in their lives and eventually takes precedence over all other activities. Like with alcohol and drug addition, the reasons certain people become pathological gamblers and other do not it unknown. There is, however, an association between pathological gambling and other addictions as well as between pathological gambling and depression. The good news is that like other addictions, gambling addiction is a treatable disease. For more information on gambling addiction treatment please visit our gambling addiction treatment page.