Why gambling can be worse than drugs and alcohol

Will Hinman opens with his last day gambling and the suicidal crisis that ended it. Then we go back to how it started young and slowly became his whole identity, to the point that he tried to get a job at the casino.

He talks about going to rehab and finding it did not understand gambling, the alcohol relapse that changed everything, what a ten-day Vipassana retreat did for him, and why he thinks gambling can be more dangerous than drugs.

He now works with problem gamblers himself. We get into sports betting picks, harm reduction, and his advice for anyone whose whole life is being run by a bet.