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Gary, Artist and Gambler Extraordinaire

Published: June 10, 2022, 8 a.m.

In this podcast, we tell the story of Gary the gambler who bet that he could beat the odds, and sadly failed in his mission.

We learn that:

  1. Addiction to gambling is probably the most dangerous addiction one could have when it comes to financial consequences.
  2. Alcohol consumption can make a gambling addict that much more careless and heedless to dire consequences, even when it affects the entire family.
  3. Gary, as a typical alcoholic/gambling addict cared only for himself and no one else: he was the example of a \u201cself-will run riot\u201d. Else, how could he have risked losing everything on one turn of the poker card?
  4. Gambling and drinking have other things in common besides the inability to stop: they create conditions that breed dishonesty and grandiosity.
  5. The addiction to the adrenaline rush is perhaps the one feature that distinguishes gambling from alcoholism. It is an addiction to a self-manufactured drug that kicks in when fear of losing is provoked or victory over the odds is imagined.