High-stakes gambling functions like a drug addiction where individuals become addicted to the adrenaline rush despite knowing the house always wins.

“Well it's it's like a drug addiction. It's like a sex addiction it's like a whatever addiction. Wow. It's same kind of thing they get they they get addicted to that adrenaline even though they know that they're you know Vegas is set up for you to lose.”

He asserts that gambling addiction is a physiological condition that operates on neurological pathways similarly to cocaine addiction.

“gambling is very neurologically similar gambling addiction to cocaine addiction it's difficult for people to comprehend i accept because it isn't a substance and you think how do you get addicted to something that isn't a substance how is it having that effect on those neurological pathways in the s”

Casinos are designed to be addictive through the use of specific sounds, lights, and graphics that trigger the brain's reward centers.

“It's that uh like I said, it's the flashing lights, the numbers, the bonuses, the the sound effects, the graphics on these machines. You got to think all these companies that make the slots, right? And this is targeted at slots and not table games because they can only do so much on the table.”

Frictionless mobile betting apps are uniquely dangerous compared to other legal vices because they allow rapid, continuous, and harmful betting behavior.

“Totally and it's it's one thing to have gambling legal right or even have you know something like fast food or tobacco or alcohol legal. It's another thing to have a frictionless gambling app on your phone where you can lose multiple mortgage payments on Malaysian women's doubles badminton”

He thinks that gambling addiction is particularly destructive to families and households compared to other addictions.

“they say in terms of the damage it does to households and families gamblin's the one”

Compulsive gambling is the most destructive and insidious addiction because of the financial ruin it causes.

“This is coming from someone who's a drug addict, alcoholic, compulsive gambler. This is the most insidious disease of them all. And out of all of my addictions, nothing has ripped my soul and my spirit out of me the way gambling did.”