the best way to decrease it is to limit or avoid exposure to gambling until mid 20s when the brain is more likely to be developed.

Considering most videogames have been dopamine hacked with lootcrates and similar mechanics almost no one is avoiding this until their 20s. Just like lemmy’s feed: random searching leading to stochastic rewards trigger our hunter gatherer neuro-circuitry the same way gambling does, little hits of dopamine to reward us for searching.

No one matures without being tweaked neurologically, except the more conservative amish and global super-poor who never touch casinos or technology.

Edit for clarity