MMmmm, well, I feel a need to respond here, personally, I haven't been in "that place" of being totally out of control, but as a young bloke I was what you would call an "avid" gambler only horses my absolute passion, and dare I say it I seemed to have an "unnatural" gift (sometimes) don't want to bore anyone but just to iterate, I recall one day that I went to the local "betting shop" and placed my only shilling (colloquially called a bob) on the first 6 furlong race on a horse called "Bobsbest" it won at 20-1,

I walked out of that venue with more that 500 QUID+, I'm talking about approx. 47 years ago, so I hope you can imagine the value of that amount of money? well I can tell you that would have bought a nice house.

Well I didn't buy a house (unfortunately) I had great time but in the end it (mostly) went back over the counter, me trying to make 5000 QUID!!

I repeated this kind of idiocy many times, only rarely making the win count, one particular time I bought a Mercedes 280 outright cash, boy did I live it up,
but eventually sold it after a bad run for about half of what it was worth, that's how it goes!

What I'm getting at is that "buzz" is better than ANY drug and I can understand how it could be totally addictive, BUT the message should be that
if that's what you feel you definitely need help!

i.e when that machine tells you that it pays 85% minimum out , what it really means that it takes 15% of every $ that goes in relentlessly! funny thats about the take from the Tote AND the bookies!