Recently, I went to Atlantic City for a family reunion and play online sabong and when I was driving the Atlantic City Express Way I saw a bright neon sign that read, “You drive – you run – you will lose.” After I spent a week there, I told my relatives that the sign should say “You drive – in Atlantic City – you lose” because running is optional. Whether in Las Vegas, Atlantic City or even at home on your own computer – on online gambling websites, the bottom line is that about 20 million Americans are creating games through betting and ending up losing about 0.5 trillion dollars per year (Feigelman, 1998) . ). About 2 million Americans are problem gamblers, 3 million adults may be problem gamblers, and another 15 million are considered at risk for sabong international. (NGISC, 1999). But who are the real losers? Results from a 1999 gambling behavior and impact study showed that the direct and indirect costs to the American community of problem and disease gambling (eg, health care, bankruptcy, criminal liability, etc.) is about 5 billion dollars per year.

This means that we the taxpayers are the real losers. The only “winners” are the casino owners, shareholders and other investors in the gambling industry. In two large US national surveys, 36% to 39% (success rate) of people with a DSM-IV lifetime history of gambling had no problem gambling in the past year (NGISC, 2002) . In other words, 61% to 64% (failure rate) of those who try to quit gambling – have returned to the gambling lifestyle within a year. This article states that the poor prognosis and treatment of patients with gambling disorder (which is slowly expanding the market for disordered gambling) may be because it does not diagnose and treat other addictions at the same time. The lack of research methods in the field of addiction may be due to the lack of current research tools and resources and the inability to understand the complexity of diagnosing and treating a patient with multiple addictions and addictions. The Addiction Recovery System (ARMS) is offered as the first step in the global war on addiction.