Hi Yuri, you have done a highly commendable public service by writing this article. Fortunately I don’t have any family members and friends who are as far as I know gambling addicts. I think there’s a very fine line between gambling for entertainment and gambling out of financial desperation. It seems that the psychology and chemistry happening in the brain when gambling is the same when abusing drugs and alcohol. Often the addicts are sent to jail but governments seem to protect the institutions dad encourage addictive behavior.