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Gambling Treatment
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
May 30, 2006
People who require gambling treatment come into
treatment financially and emotionally depleted. Most of
them put each and every penny into their addiction.
Gamblers are not at all bad people. Most of them have
never been in problem before. Gambling treatment is
required to bring the gambling under control. It is
tough for some people to understand problem gambling,
but pathological gamblers do not have the choice to
gamble, they are addicted. When pathological gamblers
take risk, they are in a chemical psychoactive high.
How gambling is addictive
The moment the gambling is over, they slip into a
chemical psychoactive low, an irritable depression they
cannot stand. In time, their pleasure hormones become
used up, and problem gamblers must take risk to feel
normal. Pathological gamblers are not
gambling for the
money, they are gambling to feel usual. This is tough
for some individuals to understand because gambling,
like drinking, seems like a decision of will. But
pathological gambling is a brain disease that is
chemically and genetically driven, just as addictive as
crack cocaine as with some individuals. Gambling is big
business in America earning the gaming industry billions
of dollars in net revenue yearly. Americans spend much
more money each year on legal gambling than they do on
movie tickets, recorded music, theme parks, spectator
sports, and video games combined. Gambling is very
attractive, mainly to people who require money.
Study of gambling treatment
The Illinois Lottery did a study to see who gambles, and
found people who made less than ten thousand dollars a
year gamble six times more frequently than those who
earn over fifty thousand dollars a year. Some of the
people know that they can win millions by risking a
dollar. A current program on the Discovery Channel
stated that gambling is so attractive, that when the
power ball is high, ninety percent of eligible adults
buy a ticket. There is no other product where the
percentages are this high. The real odds of winning a
state lottery are about fourteen million to one, the
same odds as being hit by lightening seven times while
waiting in the lottery line. Seventy years ago it was
illegal to gamble anyplace in the United States. Most
people who gamble take pleasure in gambling as a game;
it's exciting and fun. But some citizens are wedged up
in an addiction as powerful as drug addiction.
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