Gambling Addiction (Score 1)

Most experts say computers are not addictive in the same sense that drugs are, but they could be on the same level as gambling.

I'm not so sure gambling and drugs are all that different, surely not as different as this sentence implies.

Recent research has shown that drugs and gambling trigger in addicts the same pleasure receptors in the brain, in the same areas.

Antidepressants like Prozac, affecting dopamine levels, have been used for years to treat drug and alcohol dependency. Experimental evidence now shows it often has the same success in curbing the urge to gamble as well.

As a professional gambler, I've seen firsthand the amazing recklessness gambling addiction can cause, the complete lack of self-control it can cause. I've heard more than one person say that kicking drugs was hard, but nothing compared to trying to stop gambling.

Automatically treating addictions to gambling or sex or anything else as minor or somehow less real because they don't involve a chemical dependency is a mistake.