Another view of gambling addictions and compulsive gambling

Lou Krieger has a post about a recent psychiatrict study on gambling addiction.

the investigators found no evidence to support the commonly held assumptions that individuals cannot recover from (gambling addiction).

I don't think gambling addiction is a problem and I think the tendency to treat it as a mental disorder is a trip down the wrong path.

I think there are a lot of people who are compulsive losers. Gambling isn't their problem, losing is their problem. And if they didn't have gambling then they'd just find some other way to lose.