A dizzy, barely uncomfortable bed-ridden weekend and a strip of Orange paper,

vs.

A lifelong proclivity to quantize, metrify, and reduce all social interactions to transactional objects that exist soley to be leveraged.

The latter also happens to drug addicts, but the it is a psychological phenomenon that can be stymied with medication.

Unfortunately, no analogous chemical exists (yet!) for the similarly inflected urge to gamble.