What addiction is harder to kick?? Gambling, or Heroin??

My very good friend can't seem to stop gambling. I read somewhere that this addiction is as bad as a heroin/junkie addiction.
Opinion's or anyone know any facts on the matter?

I've a good friend who was an alcoholic - stopped drinking.
Then he turned to crack and herion - kicked the habit
Then he started gambling - still struggling with it.
He told me that through all his addictions he still was able to keep his family, his home, his business and finances. Gambling took all that away from him and of all his addiction gambling was that one that brought him to the point where he was considering suicide.
He believes gambling is the worst of the worst and I've no reason to doubt him.

gambling.. heroin isn't just there.. you have to seek it out

gambling is just a computer away.. plus with sports pools in the office a $5 office bet could turn into betting on all the games.. it's really hard to avoid.. and easy to find..

I think it depends on how far they have gone. I can for sure see that gambling is very addictive. We have video poker machines legal in our state & it is wrecking the lives of many. From divorce to suicide. The heroin is a physical addiction while the gambling is mental. So Id say heroin would be the hardest to kick. But they are both very addicting.

1- If you run out of money and possessions, you simply can't gamble anymore.

2- If you run out of money and possessions, the Government will prescribe you methadone.

Gambling is an easier habit to kick based on this principal.

any form of addiction is hard. as in the word. ADDICTION. weather it drugs or not. i really feel for those who have an addiction.

Both are hard but I say gambling

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Heroin is an addiction which, once the physical habituation is broken, which is relatively(!) easy, can be controlled by staying away from places where you are likely to run into it. Gambling is a mental problem of which the gambling is only an outward symptom. It is largely linked to a dopamine problem in the brain. Therapy can help, but it is a lifelong problem, like alcoholism. 12 step is pretty effective in this. You might suggest that your friend check out Gamblers' Anonymous.

gambling & heroin are both hard to kick. the hardest one is smoking!!!!!!!!! to answer your question is heroin.

both are very worst,get immediate counselling for him

Hard to say. Gambling is definitely easier to get into and keep with. Also, there isn't as much of a sigma attached to gambling.

Gambling has nothing on heroine addiction. Gambling is a compulsion or an addiction like shopping where you get an addrenaline rush. A junkie is in severe pain and gets "sick" like no other sickness can be described to someone who hasn't been there. Methadone is the governments way of keeeping junkies addicts. Heroine users need to learn about Suboxone. It can really get a junkie sober if they can then fight their will. Gambling, by no means is not a horrible addiction, but can never be compared to heroine addiction-in my opinion.

I have seen how sick the withdrawal from heroin makes a person.

So I would say based on that fact alone Heroin would be the harder addiction to quit.

some people love to to enslave themselves,if they have a freedom ,they misuse it and become slaves to worthless things ,i haven't taken any drugs or addiction before though most of my friends had,do you know why?because i refuse to make my self a slave to anything so i resist it.
lady louisa ,even if your friend are staisfied with that,gambling(his master) will not stay with him forever ,gambling will leave him when money leave.
and i think gambling = herion= bad friends = false thoughts = SELF DESTRUCTION